COMPARING TOEFL LISTENING COMPREHENSION BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDENTS AND ENGLISH COURSE STUDENTS (A CASE STUDY AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AND FULL BRIGHT INSTITUTE) = COMPARING TOEFL LISTENING COMPREHENSION BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDENTS AND ENGLISH COURSE STUDENTS (A CASE STUDY AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AND FULL BRIGHT INSTITUTE)

NURASIA. Comparing TOEFL Listening Comprehension Between English Students and English Course Students (A Case Study at English Department and Full Bright Institute) (Supervised by Nadira Mahaseng and Sitti Sahraeny).
The aims of this study are: (1) to figure out the most difficult part in TOEFL listening test faced by English students and English course students, and (2) to find the difficulty of English Students and English course students faced in responding to the TOEFL Listening test.
This research is quantitative descriptive research. This research is carried out on English Department students batch 2016-2018 and English course students. The data is obtained by conducting TOEFL listening test and filling questionnaire. The data is analyzed by counting the percentage of incorrect answer and determine the difficulty that English students and English course students faced during the TOEFL listening test.
The result of this study shows that the most difficult part in TOEFL listening test is part C with total percentage of error from English students is 66% and English course students is 76%. Meanwhile the difficulty that English students faced during the test is related to the content of listening text and the difficulty that English course students faced during the test is related to the content of listening text and physical settings.
Keywords : English students, English course students, TOEFL, Listening comprehension section.