Sari, Mita Desi (2019) An Analysis of The Fifth Semester Students' Difficulties in Comprehending TOEFL Reading Text at English Department of UIN Antasari Banjarmasin. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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TOEFL or Test of English as a Foreign Language is a standardized test to measure the English language ability of non-native speakers. It has three types: PBT, CBT, and iBT. Paper Based Test (PBT) was used in this research. This research aimed at describe the difficulties that the students encountered in comprehending TOEFL Reading text and to find out the factors that influence the difficulty in comprehending TOEFL Reading text. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The subject was 23 students on fifth semester of English Department, Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty at UIN Antasari Banjarmasin academic year 2018/2019. The instruments used to get the data were TOEFL Reading test which consist of 50 items in the form of multiple choices and interview which consist of 10 items question. Data processing in this research was divided into three phases: data reduction, data display, and interpretation. Then, all the data were analyzed descriptively. Based on the result of TOEFL Reading test, the difficulties in comprehending TOEFL Reading text were determining main idea, reference, inference, unstated detail information, stated detail information, and vocabulary in context. Meanwhile, the interview result showed that the students’ opinions about the factors that influence the difficulty in comprehending TOEFL Reading text were students’ interest on TOEFL Reading text themes, duration to read each text, students’ limited knowledge about the vocabulary, and complexity of the sentences.

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