Browsing Students by Subject "A TOEFL certificate with a certain score becomes a regulation to graduate from many universities in Indonesia. However%2C university students face many problems in achieving a certain TOEFL score that has been decided by their department. In order to obtain the required score%2C students often have to have a good preparation before they take the TOEFL test. The objectives of this research are to know the students%E2%80%99 TOEFL score achievement and to investigate the effect of joining TOEFL preparation course toward students%E2%80%99 TOEFL score. This study was designed as quantitative research with cause effect design. This research population was the whole students who joined a TOEFL preparation course at the Language Training Center %28LTC%29 of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta %28UMY%29. The researcher used purposive sampling and 170 students become the research%E2%80%99s sample. The students%E2%80%99 TOEFL score in pre-test and post-test were used as the data in this research. To answer the research questions%2C the researcher used descriptive statistic and inferential statistic in the data analysis method. The results revealed that%2C in average%2C students%E2%80%99 level of TOEFL proficiency in pre-test and post-test were in intermediate%2C which were 386.62 and 415.45. The increasing score was 28.84. Besides%2C the significant level of t-test showed 0.000 and the effect size was 0.72 which indicated that joining the TOEFL preparation course was proved to give significant effect to improve students%E2%80%99 TOEFL score. Based on the results%2C joining the TOEFL preparation course was effective to improve students%E2%80%99 TOEFL score."
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