THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS PROCEDURES WITH STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN ANSWERING THE OVERVIEW AND VOCABULARY-IN CONTEXT QUESTION OF TOEFL-LIKE

Abstract

This study aims to find out whether or not there is a relationship between college admissions procedures with students’ ability in answering overview and vocabulary-in context question of reading comprehension of TOEFL-Like. This study was comparative study. The data use from sixth semester students TOEFL-Like score from English Education Department Faculty of Teaching Training and Education of University of Mataram in academic year 2019/2020 who had participated in TOEFL Socialization and Training Program. The samples of this research use thirty students and they were selected by simple random sampling. The data were analyzed by using One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) in statistical tool SPSS 16.0. The result value of significance of overview question was .963 and it is higher than .05 which means there is no significant difference between students’ who passed college admission procedures of SNMPTN, SBMPTN and Tes Mandiri in answering overview question of TOEFL-Like. In contrary, the result value of significance of vocabulary-in context question was .039 and it is lower than .05 which means there is a significant different between students who pass college admission procedures of SBMPTN and Tes Mandiri in answering vocabulary-in context question of TOEFL-Like.