GENRE IN READING TEXTS OF TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND TEST OF ENGLISH FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION

  • Nursaima Harahap
Keywords: Genre Teks Wacana, TOEFL, TOEIC

Abstract

This research aimed at exposing types of genres in reading texts of Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). The data of the study were 10 reading texts of TOEFL and 10 reading texts of TOEIC, which were administered in 2008 and 2009. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data. The research findings show the types of genres used in reading texts of TOEFL consisting of exposition, description, and explanation, the types of genre used on reading texts of TOEIC were exposition, explanation, description, procedure, and report. The genres applied in the TOEFL were mostly based on generic structure but not is TOEFL was exposition which was (50 %) of the reading texts of the TOEFL, then followed by description (30 %), and explanation (10 %) respectively, and the most dominant types of genres in the TOEIC were exposition which is (30%), then description, explanation and procedure had equal share (20 %) each, then followed by report (10 %). The use of genre in the reading texts of the TOEFL and TOEIC was meant not only to measure students’ English proficiency for study and for work where they English. The findings of research are expected to give clearer better data for teachers to teach and for students to prepare themselves for the development of their study or future career.

Published
2016-09-30