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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SEMI-INTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE TOEFL CLASS AT INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI BANDUNG

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ABSTRACT TOEFL is one of the English tests. TOEFL test has sprung up for the past years. This study compares the sigrificant improvement of TOEFL score of shrdents at ITB who took the Semi Intensive TOEFL class and Intensive TOEFL class in the academic yeat 2008 /2N9. The objective ofthis study is to find om the aoswer ofthe question: a Is there any sipfficant difference in the achievement of the students who take the lntersive TOEFL class and the one who take the Semi-lntensive TOEFL class? The participants were 68 young adult enrolled at lnstitut Tetnologi Bandung (ITB) in the academic year 2008/2009. There are 45 participants in the SemiIntensive TOEFL class and 23 participants in the Intensive TOEFL class. Analysis of the data included the paired samples t-test The mean gain score of Semi-lntensive TOEFL class was 9.63 with a standard deviaion of 7.36 while the Intensive TOEFL class was 9.07 with a standard deviation of 7.75. The paired samples of t-test on the gain scores of Semi-lntensive TOEFL class and Intensive TOEFL class resulted in a t-c,n,'r.a value of 1.92 at a sipificance difierent a : 0.05 which is less than t-r*r. value of 2. Thus, it may be concluded from the main gain that Semi-lntensive TOEFL class achieved better improvernent in English proficiency test than lntensive TOEFL class.