DESIGNING A CORPUS-BASED DICTIONARY OF K-2
VOCABULARY IN WHEN ENGLISH RINGS A BELL,
ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR
GRADE VII, VIII, IX STUDENTS
Lugista Harliana
112013083
ABSTRACT
One of the strategies commonly used by teachers to enhance students’ vocabulary is using a dictionary. However, applying that strategy still cannot help the students optimal. The problem is the students usually use dictionary which is not suitable with their needs. This study aims to design a corpus-based dictionary. This corpus-based dictionary is designed based on three textbooks “When English Rings a Bell” for grade VII, VIII, and IX. This dictionary also more focuses on vocabulary items which belong to K-2 group. For selecting the word entry, I converted those three textbooks using vocabulary profiler in Compleat Lexical Tutor application. After converting, I got 207 words which belong to K-2 group. Therefore, I only needed 150 words for dictionary entries. Here I used random sampling to select 150 words from 207. This amount is considered to be representative of 207 words of K-2 group from those three textbooks. Moreover, this corpus-based dictionary was completed by 5 examples of sentences in every word. I used three corpuses for selecting 5 example sentences. They are 1k graded corpus, 2k graded corpus, and general academic corpus. Those three corpuses were in concordance corpus. The findings result a corpus-based dictionary of K-2 vocabulary which can be used for students as a complement of the textbook.
