Abstract:
This research aims to find out vocabulary learning opportunities provided in the reading materials written for English National Examination preparation. Therefore, all the words appearing in the reading materials were analyzed. The analysis was done using AntWordProfiler program. The research, thus, employed a quantitative data since it was a corpus analysis. The results revealed that the collection of the reading materials (through the word repetition) provided a great opportunity to deepen knowledge of first 1,000 most frequent words. However, it did not provide good opportunities to develop the knowledge of second 1,000 most frequent words, academic words and unlisted words well. This is because most of the word families found in the reading materials occurred once and less than five times. In short, the reading materials used to prepare the students for the examination provided opportunities to learn first 1,000 most frequent words and lacked the opportunities for second 1,000 most frequent words, academic words and unlisted words. |
