Safitri, Mega Safitri (2021) the correlation between students' reading and listening scores in a standardized test of toefl / mega safitri. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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Recent studies have been devoted to examining the correlation between reading and listening pertinent to teaching techniques and language tests. They investigated the effectiveness of combining reading and listening to enhance students rsquo language skills and studied how the scores of both skills correlated. While Bozorgian (2012) analyzed the correlation of language skills and listening in the IELTS reading and listening Tiendas (2018) investigated the correlation between reading listening and writing in the Cambridge Preliminary Test for Schools published by UCLES. In addition Hastuti and Kalim (2019) measured the correlation between reading and listening in the local TOEFL-PBT test. To this end yet unfortunately the previous studies have not touched on the correlation of reading and listening in a standardized test of TOEFL ITP test. By looking into this matter this gap possibly defects the comprehensive discussion of the correlation between reading and listening especially in language tests. This gap also decreases the notion to notify teachers to advance their teaching and test designers to manage and organize language tests. This information is useful as the underlying way of thinking to design teaching activities and assessments that integrate two skills and fruitful to design effective test administration. In addition the limited focus and participants of the previous studies threaten the justification. Therefore the present study aims at analyzing the correlation between reading and listening in the standardized test of TOEFL issued by ETS and assessing to what extent reading predicts listening. Specifically the present research was devoted to measuring the coefficient and percentage of prediction of reading toward listening. This study involved 50 684 test scores of undergraduate students in one of the state universities in Malang in the 2015-2019 test periods. The data used Pearson Correlation Product Moment and simple regression analysis. The computation measured the direction coefficient and significant level of the correlation. The findings revealed that reading and listening has significant linear and strong correlation marked by .682 and reading significantly predicts 46.5% variance of listening. Those findings prove that the theoretical hypotheses are supported and the null hypotheses are rejected. The findings lead to another hypothesis that receptive skills correlate and predict one another. It means that the correlation of language skills is not only found in receptive-productive skills but also in receptive-receptive skills. Thus the proposition of the parallelism of reading and listening in language tests is depicted despite the fact that they are different in language modality. In the pedagogic realm those findings suggested the combination of reading and listening in the classroom activities such as using reading as a pre-activity in listening class.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2021 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2021 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/159339 |
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