Title:
Comparing Indonesian English Textbooks and National Examination Texts:
A Corpus-based Analysis
Author:
Furqanul Aziez
Bio:
Furqanul Aziez is a lecturer at Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto, Indonesia. He has been teaching for the university for twenty one years. He mostly teaches on BA and MA courses in Lexical Study, Language Testing, and Innovations in Education. His main research interests include vocabulary, TEFL, and language testing.
Abstract
This study is designed (1) to create a corpus of secondary school English textbooks across grades and English national examination texts to form the basis of analysis, and (2) vocabulary level (distribution among the British National Corpus 1st – 20th 1000 high frequency word families) of each book and texts of junior high and senior high English examination, and the text coverage. Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) containing 570 word families is chosen as one of the basic word lists. Cobb’s (2008) Web VocabProfiler (n.d.) software will be used to analyze the corpus. The results will show (1) the number of interdisciplinary academic words students will find in the textbooks and examination texts, (2) the number of new words beyond the 2,000 basic words students will encounter in each textbook and examination texts, (3) the vocabulary level of each textbook and examination texts against the 20 1000-word families bands developed from the BNC in the Web VocabProfiler program, and (4) the number of words the textbooks provide to help students prepare the examinations. Hopefully, the findings would help English textbook writers and test constructors in Indonesia select texts with vocabulary content at students’ language level.
Keywords: English textbooks, vocabulary levels, academic word list, 2,000 basic words.
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