IDENTIFYING THE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN COMPREHENDING TOEFL READING TEST

The study aimed to find out the Students’ difficulties in comprehending TOEFL reading Test. The description of the data through the question as explained in the previous section showed that the students have some problems or difficulties in TOEFL. There are five items of the difficulties faced by students of fourth-semester students of IAIN Palopo in the Academic year 2016/2017 about determining the main idea, supporting detail, vocabulary, reference and inference. Those facts are also backed up by the result of the questionnaire which show that those items must be considered to be resolved.


INTRODUCTION
English is an international language which is learned all over the word. In education English has been chosen as one of the subject that should be mastered by the student; in junior high school, senior high school, and university level. In Indonesia teaching English focuses on four basic skills, namely; listening, reading, speaking and writing, one of the fair raise skill which is very important in learning English reading. Kinds of reading which have been recognized comprehensively is become one of basic skill but it regarded as difficult one by the student. They think that reading is required a lot of vocabulary to understand the given passegges.In reading there are a few things to note, for example, punctuation in reading the text, how to capture the intent of the text, and the difficulty in understanding a passage, so that the reader can get clear information from a text that was written by an author. Moreover, a reader should pay attention word for word from the text so that use pronoun can get the meaning and purpose in reading the text.
One of them most complaints is difficulties in doing the TOEFL test that is a test of English language proficiency and become a global standard for viewing one's ability in the English language as a whole therefore, it becomes very important the understanding because TOEFL is a test used to determine ability to master English especially related to the academic purposes. TOEFL test is designed to measure the English language proficiency for those whose everyday language is not English. TOEFL is a common requirement when we want to apply for scholarship abroad or work requirement in many companies. To be able to do the TOEFL test well and get a high sore, in accordance with the allocation of time, it takes the right technique. One alternative that can be applied is difficulties in comprehending Reading TOEFL. When looking for details, we expect students to concentrate on the minutes of what they are reading.
By using technique the participant can cover the whole problem on the items on the TOEFL test is very varied and has a difficulty level is quite high. The writer chooses this technique because it is considered to help to plan, communicate, become more creative, save time, solve problems, focus, organize and clarify thoughts, recall them better, learn faster and efficient, and see the whole picture. Achieving a high TOEFL scores particularly in reading comprehension is often a problem for most people, especially those who are required to take the test because many students who cannot read fast and understand quickly because lack of rich vocabulary of well-established. So wealth richer vocabulary possessed the more easily achieve fast read and understand quickly. The lack of ability in comprehend the reading text, be, such as; inability in scanning, skimming, guessing meaning from the context, etc. The students unable in getting the message from the text and they will be failure in answering the question related to the text.

METHODS
The method that applied in this research was quantitative descriptive method. It is used to give description about students' difficulties in comprehending TOEFL Reading Test at fourth semester of IAIN Palopo.

Design
Design in uses research was a questionnaire distributed to students in the fourth semester of study completed S1. This questionnaire which gives data related to teaching reading TOEFL test to be resolved as a condition to determine how well the students' answer the questions that have been created. The questionnaire consisted of 50 questions and 10 types in the TOEFL.

Population and Sample
The population of this research wereall of the fourth semester students of IAIN Palopo. The number of population was 124 students from four classes. They are A, B, C, and D. Sample was a part of population that can represent all of population. In this case, the researcher applied purposive sampling, it can represent a class A in fourth semester because the English language proficiency is tolerable another classes. The researcher took 20 students in class A of IAIN Palopo.

TOEFL Reading Test
By using a TOEFL Reading test in the form of multiple choicequestionsconsistingof50 questions, that asking about the students' difficulties in IAIN Palopo.

Questionnaire
Questionscreated by the authors is the question to the students about what the difficulties faced in working TOEFL reading test. The number of question consist 8 (eight) question and have three multiple choice namely strongly agree (SS), agree (S), and easy (M).

Procedure of Collecation Data
The procedure of the research following steps: 1. The writer explained little about TOEFL reading 2. The writer conducted test and questionnaire, and then explained how to do the test. The time for doing the test took 55 minutes and questionnaires will be taken 15 minutes. 3. The writer analyzed the result of the test and questionnaire. 4. Classified the data based on the students ability and students difficulties in TOEFL reading.

Technique of Data Analysis
In analyzing the data the writer used descriptive analyzing the data:

Test
The writer analyzed the ability of the fourth semester at IAIN Palopo in TOEFL Reading Test by using the following: Scoring the students answer Score =

Total Correct Answer
Total Test Item

Questionnaire
To analyze then responses in comprehending TOEFL reading test at fourth semester of IAIN Palopo, the writer used percentage of the questionnaire the writer used the following formula: From the table 4.1, there are only 4 students who scored 4.6, 3.6, 3.6 and 3.6. The other students got very less than the maximum value. Means can be seen students still have difficulty in TOEFL reading test.

DISCUSSION
The description of the data through question as explained in the previous section showed that the students have some problem or difficulties in TOEFL reading. Student difficulties in comprehending TOEFL reading test at fourth semester in IAIN Palopo. In reading TOEFL test, there are five items among the five items to the difficulties faced by students fourth semester class A are the supporting details, because the average student in the TOEFL test carried there are some students who go a very minimal value of item is in reading TOEFL test. As for the y difficult problem answered by students of fourth semester is IAIN Palopo: The previous most of questions difficulty students choose answer C, where as the correct answer to question no44isD. Supporting Details of matter we can see the in fourth semester students still lack of understanding of the content or context of the sentence reading in reading it. Most students rely on the ability to guess without regard to reading the text well. Besides subsequent difficulties faced by students are the main idea item, reference, and inference, where as the vocabulary items fourth semester classes a student has been able to answer well although the answer is far from perfect. There are several issues which in a sense is hard on them about the reference and the main idea.

Main
The students difficulty in answering the questions in the test TOEFL reading is because they are lazy students read about there dingiest tool on grand the vocabulary used in the reading TOEFL rarely used so that students can only rely on guesses answer. That is why the answer TOEFL class (A) fourth semester students are still far from perfect. The others cause is the difficulty of students in findings main idea in TOEFL read; it can be seen on the table 4.9. Seven students said very difficult, ten students said difficult, and just four students said easy. It also cause of lack of student lack of speed read as seen on the table 4.10, ten students said difficult to the speed reading in TOEFL reading test. Some students also difficult in when reading the literature, understand the information written in the TOEFL reading test, as seen on the table 4.11, but a half of the respondent took in this research said easy to reading literature the information written after reading TOEFL test in a passage. For the question number 8, sixteen students said difficult, four students said easy, and none students' said very difficult of TOEFL reading test.
Some students are difficult in using expression when is working TOEFL reading test, it can be seen 4.8 were two students chose very difficult, nine students said difficult, and nine said easy. It means that almost a half of the students taken as sample in this research easy to use expression in TOEFL reading. From the eight questionnaires, just two questions that is most of the students said easy. It is the questionnaire number five and six easy notice the punctuation when is working or reading in TOEFL test.

CONCLUSION
Student difficulties in comprehending TOEFL reading test at fourth semester of English Department in IAIN Palopo 2014/2015 academic years in TOEFL reading are: 1. Difficulties in comprehending TOEFL reading test. In vocabulary items, the fourth semester students is much more able to answer questions TOEFL test well in the appeal other items, readings that is too long to make students become bored to read, the students on average fourth semester playing is difficulties in this item, because the vocabulary is still rarely use dignitary in every day, the students rely solely on answers guess that makes no right answer, and the items inference students almost answered with good about the test. 2. The students responses about TOEFL reading test. The researcher think there are three difficult faced by students in TOEFL reading test, namely: 1). Limited time, 2). Limited vocabulary, and 3). Lack of concentration. Therefore, in the work or answer questions TOEFL reading must use time as efficiently as possible, in addition to the students in required to reproduce in required to reproduce the vocabulary before taking the test TOEFL vocabulary before reading. Because in reading there are lot of difficult vocabulary understand and students are suggested to concentrate on the work TOEFL test.