LEARNING STRATEGIES OF SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS IN TOEFL TEST: A CASE STUDY IN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Abstract : Now a number of Indonesian colleges demand TOEFL scores in order to graduate and the students’ comprehension of English in academic work can be predicted by their TOEFL results. However, it is not easy to get this score, many students have difficulty and fail to achieve the graduation requirements by getting a minimum score of 500. Thus, this reseacrh aimed to find out the strategies used by students to achieve high scores in conducting the TOEFL exam and to know the students’ process in choosing strategies for each TOEFL section. The qualitative reseacrh was used in this navigataion and took an interview of 15 questions from 3 students of University Islam Malang in the semester 8 who had taken the TOEFL exam with a score above 500. The result showed that students used memory and metacognitive strategies in listening comprehension, they used cognitive and metacognitive strategies in the structure and written expression and for reading comprehension, students used cognitive and metacognitive strategy.

 

Keywords : learning strategies and TOEFL Test