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Subject of the research was the whole students of the sixth semester of English Language Education Study Program of UMB Bengkulu Academic Year 2021/2022 . There were 20 students as the sample of this research. The instruments of this research were questionnaire and interview. Questionairre is a list of question that describe of something. The questionnaire was designed based on Fitria (2021) theory who divided the students difficulties into; internal factors and external factors. There are two findings of this research; First, the students’difficulties in listening section of TOEFL Test in University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu are including internal factors and external factors. Second, the most dominant students’ difficulties in listening section of TOEFL Test in University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu was external factor. The dominant external factors were speakers’ intonation/emphasis affects your TOEFL Listening skill, the sentence structure conveyed by the speaker is too complex so it affects the TOEFL Listening skill, and audio interruption makes the audio sounds less/unclear when Listening TOEFL.  \nKeywords : Difficulties in doing Listening Section, TOEFL Test  \nIntroduction  \nTOEFL has become one of the importance requirements to University students since it was determined as the requirement for academic demands. At University of Bengkulu, TOEFL is also offered to students before they followed the research paper test. The test is usually carried out orderly when they are at the sixth grade. start from sixth semester the students should follow TOEFL test administered by the university as requirement to be able to make a thesis (SK Rektor No. 174-sk/r.01-UMB/2015) . According to Samad et al (2107) “TOEFL is an international test is commonly used to measure the level of students’ competence in mastering English”. It means that the students should get standard score depend on the expectation if they want to become graduates of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. TOEFL examines language skills that are tailored to the academic and professional fields. These fields are packaged and divided into sections. TOEFL test usually consists of three sections with 140 questions. TOEFL includes  \nthree aspects, namely (1) Listening Comprehension, (2) Structure and Written Expression, (3) Reading Comprehension. The TOEFL test always starts with Listening Comprehension consisting of Part A, B, and C, then followed by Structure and Written Expression consisting of Part A and B, and the last is Reading Comprehension.  \nBased on the preliminary data on 29th may 2022, the researcher did interview to five students at sixth semester English Study Program of UMB who followed TOEFL Test, the interview result showed that three from five students as the respondents got difficulties in listening section. As respondent 1 said that she got difficult in understanding vocabulary, grammar, context, accent or pronunciation, and interesting skill conclusions. Another students also said that some other things that often become problems when facing the TOEFL listening test include not understanding the topic, foreign words, nervousness, being unfamiliar with diction and grammar, repetitions and pauses, wide imagination, and missing detailed information, lack of concentration, lack of understandi","cbCairNafCoCB9bj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairNafCoCB9bj","pdf",274671,11,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Background of TOEFL Listening\n## TOEFL Test Structure\n## Preliminary Data and Problem Statement\n## Listening Comprehension Overview\n## Research Focus","[{\"question\":\"What is the objective of this research on TOEFL listening?\",\"answer\":\"The research aims to investigate students’ difficulties in the TOEFL Listening section and determine which difficulties are most dominant.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the study conducted and who were the participants?\",\"answer\":\"The study used a descriptive quantitative design. 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