Palapa: Jurnal Study Keislaman dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Vol 9 No 1 (2021): MEI

Gender-Based Analysis of Students’ Ability in Answering Factual and Vocabulary-in-Context Questions of the TOEFL-Like Reading Comprehension Test

Cahya Destiyanti (Universitas Mataram)
Muhammad Amin (Universitas Mataram)
Lalu Jaswadi Putera (Universitas Mataram)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 May 2021

Abstract

This study was aimed to find out whether or not there was a significant difference between male and female students’ ability in answering factual and vocabulary-in-context questions of the TOEFL-Like reading comprehension test. Secondary data analysis was utilized by taking reading comprehension test scores of twenty-one male and twenty-one female students of the English Education Program. Samples were selected using random sampling technique. Data were analyzed using independent sample t-test. Results showed that the t-values of sig. 2-tailed was higher than 0.05 in male and female students’ ability in answering both the factual questions (0.267 > 0.05) and the vocabulary-in-context questions (0.837 > 0.05). The results revealed that there was no significant difference between male and female students’ ability in answering factual and vocabulary-in-context questions of the TOEFL-Like reading comprehension test.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

palapa

Publisher

Subject

Religion Education

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PALAPA: Jurnal studi Keislaman dan ilmu pendidikan diterbitkan oleh lembaga penelitian dan pengabdian masyarakat (LP2M) STIT Palapa Nusantara Lombok Nusa Tenggara Barat melalui Koordinatorat Perguruan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam Swasta (Kopertais) Wilayah IV Surabaya. Jurnal ini terbit enam bulanan, ...