Research Activities Description of the Study

30 CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS This chapter presents research finding and discussion, which contains description of the study, research activities, analysis of the test and disscussion. This chapter discusses the problems of the study. The problems of the study are how is the reading profile between the English Department junior students of Education and Literature Program assessed by using TOEFL. The values used in this study are the fifty questions that were taken from TOEFL. The problem will be shown and elaborated by putting them into table and flow chart.

4.1 Description of the Study

In this research, there were only two meetings of test. The research of ELT was conducted on Wednesday, 24 th October, 2012 at 01.00 p.m – 02.00 p.m and the the research of EL was conducted on Monday, and 26 th November, 2012 at 11.00 a.m – 12.00 a.m. The material of the research was written test with the time allotment about 60 minutes.

4.1.1 Research Activities

Before doing the research, I arranged the activities that would be conducted. I determined the part or the material which would be used in the reserch. Then, the reserch instrument was arranged. The research assessment taking from TOEFL structure test from Barron collection based on the arrangement, it was decided to conduct only two meetings in this research ; the meeting was the test. The total time allotment was 1 x 60 minutes. In the meeting, the activity was divided into three parts; opening, main activity, and closing. 1 First Meeting On Wednesday, 24 th October, 2012 at 01.00 p.m – 02.00 p.m In the opening, I greeted the students. I introduced may friend and me, and then I told them the purpose why my friend was there. After that, I gave the test papers to the students one by one. I told the students that the test would be held during 60 minutes. After that the test was started. Main part, all of the students answered seriously, but some students cheated during the test. It was caught by the camera. The test was conducted for 60 minutes, I told them that they should check their answers to make sure all of the questions had been answered correctly. The announcement was given in 5 minutes before they left the class. In the closing, after the time was over, I said thanks for the participants for their coming and they had helped the activities until the test ended that meeting. 2 Second Meeting On Monday, 26 th November, 2012 at 11.00 a.m – 12.00 a.m In the opening, I greeted the students. I introduced may friend and me, and then I told them the purpose why my friend was there. After that, I gave the test papers to the students one by one. I told the students that the test would be held during 60 minutes. After that the test was started. Main part, all of the students answered seriously, but some students cheated during the test. It was caught by the camera. The test was conducted for 60 minutes, I told them that they should check their answers to make sure all of the questions had been answered correctly. The announcement was given in 5 minutes before they left the class. In the closing, after the time was over, I said thanks for the participants for their coming and they had helped the activities until the test ended that meeting.

4.2 Analysis of the Test