Abstract
This study focused on the strategies of undergraduate students in preparing for the TOEFL Prediction. The study distributed questionnaires to the students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Aceh, gathering a sample of 15 students of different majors. The findings revealed that the students’ most used strategy was self-study, involving learning with various English materials. This study suggests that future research focus on the reasons influencing test-takers’ decision in test preparation strategies.
Highlights
As a language used worldwide, English has greatly penetrated into various aspects of life, including education, making it a lingua franca in international relations (Crystal, 2003)
The TOEFL test scores have a significant role in deciding whether a nonEnglish speaker prospective student can be admitted into the universities in those countries (Vu & Vu, 2013; Phakiti, 2016)
This is the case in Indonesia where many universities require their students to sit for the TOEFL test in order to evaluate their English competence and to evaluate their admission or graduation (Hambali, 2008; Ermawan, Arifin, & Salam, 2014; Mahmud, 2014; Munadia, 2016; Samad, Jannah, & Fitriani, 2017)
Summary
As a language used worldwide, English has greatly penetrated into various aspects of life, including education, making it a lingua franca (common language) in international relations (Crystal, 2003). The TOEFL test scores have a significant role in deciding whether a nonEnglish speaker prospective student can be admitted into the universities in those countries (Vu & Vu, 2013; Phakiti, 2016). This is the case in Indonesia where many universities require their students to sit for the TOEFL test in order to evaluate their English competence and to evaluate their admission or graduation (Hambali, 2008; Ermawan, Arifin, & Salam, 2014; Mahmud, 2014; Munadia, 2016; Samad, Jannah, & Fitriani, 2017). TOEFL Prediction has a high-stake purpose as in the official TOEFL, which is to determine the students’ future (Suryaningsih, 2014) such as their eligibility for undergraduate thesis examination; the students try hard to pass the required minimum test scores
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