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ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ACHIEVEMENT IN 180 HOURS AMONG 2006 BATCH AT UNIVERSITAS ADVENT INDONESIA

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ABSTRACT Nowadays, English is an official language around the world. Many people have pmblern for communicating because they do not know English. To exceed the problem, it is important to study English more and take Test of English as a Foreigr Ianguage (TOEFL) becaus€ it can help them to develop their English ability. The objective of this study is to contibute to this discussion by examining: If there is any sigrificant difierence in achievement of Fngli5[ language proficiency of the participants after taking English for lEO hours during six semesters. The participants were 63 young adult. They were 2006 batch enrolled at Universitas Advent Indonesia The participants of this sudy have taken English Entrance Exam @3;,') in the first s€mester and English Exit Exam (E3-it) in the 66 semestet. This research obtained the data as follows: X (E3i,) as pre-test = 63, Y (E3"*ir) as post-tesF 63. The means of pre-test was 353.65 with mean standard deviation 24.488 and with mean standard error 3.085. And after the tneatrnents, the mean of post-test was 443.83 with mean standard deviation was 32.001 and with mean standard error was 4.032. The mean gain score was 90.17. This result was supported by t-counted result as 2,636 alld t-table :1,671. It means that t-counted > t-table. Thus, tL is acceptd that there is a significant difference of achievement in English language proficiency after taking English for 180 hour during six semesters.