Preservice English Students’ Difficulties in Dealing with Listening Section of TOEFL

Nurdahliana Nurdahliana, Fadly Azhar, Afrianto Daud

Abstract


Since Indonesians' English proficiency is quite low, most universities and government agencies in Indonesia require English tests such as TOEFL to measure English proficiency. The aim of this research is to determine what are the difficulty factors faced by English students in dealing with the listening section of the TOEFL. This mixed-methods research involved 38 English students from the class of 2021, Riau University. Data was collected from a set of questionnaires distributed online and to strengthen the results of the research, interviews were conducted. The findings of this research show that the difficulty factor encountered by English study program students in the listening section of the TOEFL is the material problem factor, this is evidenced by the average obtained from the questionnaire results of 3.713. In addition, the level of difficulty of each factor is categorized as high. In conclusion, students of the English Study Program have difficulty in dealing with the TOEFL listening section

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Analysis, Listening Difficulties, TOEFL

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31004/edukatif.v6i2.6554

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