COMPARISON OF ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT AMONG SELECTED FRESHMEN IN UNIVERSITAS ADVENT INDONESIA (UNAI)

Abstract

This study compared the improvement in English proficiency of freshmen who undertook the
Remedial English and English I classes concurrently (Group A) with that of freshmen who
had marginally better English proficiency scores and undertook the English I class only
(Group B). The paired samples t-test on the gain scores resulted in a t-observed value of
2.604 at a significance level a = 0.05, thus the conclusion that Group A achieved better
improvement in English language proficiency than Group B.