IRJE (Indonesian Research Journal in Education)
Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2018

Measuring Indonesian Students’ Lexical Diversity and Lexical Sophistication

FAILASOFAH FAILASOFAH (University of Pannonia)
HAZIM TAISIR DAYIJ ALKHRISHEH (University of Pannonia)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2018

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to look at a description of Indonesian EFL students’ vocabulary knowledge. The focus was on their lexical diversity (how many different words students used) and lexical sophistication (how many advance words students used) in the English production, which is learnt by them as a foreign language. Their vocabulary knowledge was assessed using the D_tools and P_Lex software for the analysis. These statistical programs describe students’ detail computation results in both number and graph. Ten participants’ word production through a story-telling test was recorded and analyzed to look at their D and Lambda value. Based on the results gathered, it can be concluded that as foreign language learners, lower level of proficiency participants could produce more lexically rich texts than higher level participants and vice versa.

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irje

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Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

The Indonesian Research Journal in Education (IRJE) accepts unpublished, high quality, and original research manuscripts in English, resulting primarily from quantitative, qualitative, or mixed research methodology related to or associated with education. These issues include, but not limited to, ...