| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
TOEFL is a test to measure student’s ability in understanding English. At one
private university in Yogyakarta, the score of TOEFL test was used as one of the
requirements before graduating from the university. This study aimed to find out the
challenges in doing PBT TOEFL test. There was a question formulated in this study
which was “what are the challenges faced by EFL students on the Structure and Written
Expression of PBT TOEFL?”. The researcher used qualitative research design. The data
of this study were collected by interviewing three students of ELED at one private
university in Yogyakarta who had taken ILT class and had experiences about the issue
that they got low score on the Structure and Written Expression of PBT TOEFL. The
researcher chose open ended interview in order to make the participants relaxed. The
data from the interview were analyzed by using content analysis named coding. There
were four types of analysis process such as open, analytical, axial and selective coding.
The result of this study showed that there were seven challenges faced by EFL students
on the Structure and Written Expression of PBT TOEFL. The challenges were
understanding part of speech, fill in the blank, identifying clauses, limitation of
vocabulary, understanding inversion, understanding tenses, identifying parallel structure. | en_US |
