Vocabulary Profile of Introduction to Language Education Textbook Argo Dhea Galuh Kirana Ardyny
Satya Wacana Christian University
Abstract
Vocabulary is a very important element in language learning as it conveys the meaning of certain words. Problems might occur if foreign language learners are not familiar with the words given. The objective of this study was to identify the vocabulary profile of the material in the Introduction to Language Education (2013) course. Based on the purpose, a descriptive method was used and all pages in the course book were used as the samples of the study. The analysis used an electronic tool, named The Compleat Lexical Tutor, v.4 developed by Cobb (1999). The study revealed three results; (1) 80,81% of the course book was understandable for university level while the rest of 19,19% was need much effort to comprehend; (2) unit 1 of the course book could be relatively easy to comprehend because it had the highest proportion of 1000 word list (K1) and the lowest proportion of Academic Word List (AWL), while unit 5 could be hard to comprehend because of its lowest proportion of K1 and its highest proportion of AWL; (3) unit 7 did not show the contrastive result of K1 and AWL however it still concluded as unit which was hard to comprehend.
