The students’ strategies in preparing TOEFL by sixth semester students academic year 2014-2015 at English Education Department UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

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Safitri, Isna Wahyu (2018) The students’ strategies in preparing TOEFL by sixth semester students academic year 2014-2015 at English Education Department UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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This research entitled The Students’ Strategies in Preparing TOEFL by Sixth Semester Students Academic Year 2014-2015 at English Education Department UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. TOEFL is one of the English tests that are categorized as difficult test especially for beginners. Without careful preparation it will be difficult for participants who want to face the TOEFL. Participants have to prepare many strategies if they want to get a good score of TOEFL. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to know the strategies in preparing TOEFL and the reason of using these strategies that used by the students who have followed TOEFL Preparation Class. This research used qualitative method and researcher uses descriptive qualitative research. The population of this study was 10 persons of the sixth semester students’ academic year 2014 2015 who had achieved a minimum score of 500. The researcher uses observation and transcript interview for collecting the data. The instruments used are checklist document and interview guidelines. The result of this study is to show the strategies used for preparing before facing the TOEFL. Among the strategies are focus on learning and practicing TOEFL exercises in sufficient time, understand of specific instructions for working on each part of TOEFL exercises, confidence in selfability or self-confidence, well-prepared preparation, know how to find sentences or key words, practicing and working on some models of TOEFL exercises, to listen to lectures from native speakers in English, learn about the changes in the test format, how the test is structured and what each test section measures, learn how to use test-taking strategies of TOEFL exercises, keep in mind all the tips and tricks that have been learned for the next day, prepare for a good night’s sleep and enough for fresh thoughts return in the next day, get plenty of rest, have breakfast enough, not too much drink because interruption is not allowed to leave the seat and the last is have arrived at the place of the test half an hour before starting the test. As much as participants understand about these strategies, they will be much more ready for facing the TOEFL to get a high score as they expected.