TAILIEUCHUNG - Difficulties in test of TOEIC reading comprehension by the final year students of high quality classes at faculty of mechanical engineering, HaUI

TOEIC has been recognized as a golden to unlock doors of job opportunity for working people. At Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI), TOEIC certificate has become a compulsory requirement for high quality students to be qualified for university degree. This article explores the students’ difficulties in the test of TOEIC reading comprehension and then proposes applicable solutions to the difficulties. | 102 TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC THỦ ĐÔ H NỘI DIFFICULTIES IN TEST OF TOEIC READING COMPREHENSION BY THE FINAL YEAR STUDENTS OF HIGH QUALITY CLASSES AT FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING HaUI Pham Duc Long1 Hanoi University of Industry Abstract TOEIC has been recognized as a golden key to unlock doors of job opportunity for working people. At Hanoi University of Industry HaUI TOEIC certificate has become a compulsory requirement for high quality students to be qualified for university degree. After attending the internal TOEIC test held in HaUI in November 2014 the final year students of high quality classes at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering HaUI shared their great hindrances towards TOEIC reading comprehension. This article explores the students difficulties in the test of TOEIC reading comprehension and then proposes applicable solutions to the difficulties. Keywords Keywords TOEIC reading comprehension difficulties vocabulary. 1. INTRODUCTION Test of English for International Communication TOEIC is widely regarded as the worldwide standard for measuring English proficiency in the workplace. It can be used for different purposes such as a compulsory condition to graduate schools an indicator to consider for increasing workers salary and a good competitive advantage for qualified staff s overseas business trips. At Faculty of Mechanical Engineering FME students of high quality classes are required to get at least 550 TOEIC points before graduating from Hanoi University of Industry. However after more than three years learning practicing and attending TOEIC test as reported by monitors in December 2014 52 out of 64 final year students of two high quality classes are not qualified for HaUI s internal TOEIC certificate. The students claimed that TOEIC s 7th part or reading comprehension was the hardest among parts of the test of TOEIC reading section. Furthermore there has been a few studies researching 1 Nhận bài ngày gửi phản biện chỉnh sửa và duyệt ñăng ngày .

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