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Reading Test: How Students Face It in EPT

Authors
Maryam Sorohiti1, *, Dwi Okti Istiqomah2
1,2English Language Education Department, Faculty of English Language Education Department, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: maryamsorohiti@umy.ac.id
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Maryam Sorohiti
Available Online 29 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211227.011How to use a DOI?
Keywords
reading comprehension; EPT; challenge; strategy
Abstract

Many perceptions have been expressed regarding reading comprehension related to the TOEFL test. Most students in higher education in non-English speaking countries such as Indonesia still have difficulty mastering English texts. The implication is that the TOEFL test results have also decreased. The reading test section is a part that must also be mastered well by students to increase their scores. This qualitative-descriptive study involved six participants with specific criteria. One of them was that they had already taken one form of the English Proficiency Test (EPT) with reading as one of the sections. The results obtained included five challenges and three strategies regarding reading skills in ETP. The five challenges were looking for the main idea, determining the meaning of a complex word, identifying pronoun reference, specifying implied detail, and determining the passage’s tone while the three strategies were reading the first sentence of each paragraph, guessing and using context clues, and skimming. In conclusion, all test-taker candidates of EPT must prepare themselves with adequate vocabulary to understand the meaning of the text given because the more vocabulary mastered, the greater the understanding of the text read. Therefore, one conclusion that can be drawn is that vocabulary plays a critical role in understanding the text given in the test.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation Track Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICSIHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 December 2021
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.211227.011
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211227.011How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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