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 seeks to create a corpus of Indonesia’s vocational school English textbooks across grades to form the basis of analysis, and to gauge vocabulary size, vocabulary levels (distribution among the British National Corpus 1st – 20th 1000 high frequency word families) of each book, the text coverage, and the academic word load. 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 of two most widely used English textbooks in vocational schools in Indonesia. The results will show (1) the interdisciplinary academic words students will learn from the textbooks across grades, (2) the number of new words beyond the 2,000 basic words students will encounter in each textbook, and (3) the vocabulary level of each textbook against the 20 1000-word families bands developed from the BNC in the Web VocabProfiler program. It is hoped that the indices resulted from this study would help English teachers and textbook writers in Indonesia design curriculum and decide textbook content with more caution, especially from the vocabulary level consideration. It is also hoped that it would allow teachers plan academic word presentation throughout the courses more systematically.
Keywords: vocational school English textbooks, vocabulary levels, interdisciplinary academic words
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