Sari, Siti Nurmala (2021) A difficulties analysis of inference making ability in toefl listening test among english department students at IAIN Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research were to investigate the students’ difficulties in making inference, to know the cause of students’ difficulties in making inference, and to investigate the way to overcome in making inference in TOEFL listening test. The researcher analyzed those phenomena based on the consideration of the students’ problem in making inference in TOEFL listening test investigated in the process of pre-survey. Therefore, it is hoped that this research is beneficial in illustrating the phenomena of inference making ability in
TOEFL listening test. The method of this research was qualitative research in the form of a case study carried out at English Department Students at IAIN Metro. The primary sources of this research are the document of seventh semester students’ of IAIN Metro that consists of 15 students. The researcher used observation, documentation and interview in collecting the data. The observation was
conducted to know difficulties in making inference in TOEFL listening test. The interview was conducted to investigate the causes and the ways to overcome the
students’ difficulties in making inference in TOEFL listening test of the research objectives.

The research results show students’ difficulties in making inference in TOEFL listening test that consist of propositional inferences and pragmatic inferences. In addition, the second research result is about the cause the students’ difficulties in making inference in TOEFL listening test were being not able to comprehend the surface elements such as phonemes, words, intonation or
grammatical category, being not able to understand pragmatic context, being not able to determine meaning of auditory input and being not able develop the gist a global or comprehensive understanding. Furthermore, another research result is about the ways to overcome the students’ difficulties in making inference in TOEFL listening test including of providing the important guide of vocabulary enrichment, understanding the speech, tone and pitch of sound source, minimizing borredness, environment that is condusive and effective strategy.

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