Academic words mastered 75 by the twelve grade students in SMA Negeri 1 Wonosari
Table 4.14 Academic words mastered 70 based on the lexical category
Lexical category Number of words
Number of words with 70
mastery Mastery
Noun 335
5 1.49
Verb 123
1 0.81
Adjective 120
1 0.83
Adverb 19
1 5.26
Number of words 600
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According to the table, there are only a few of nouns mastered 70 by the twelve grade students, i.e. 5 of 335 nouns. If it is in the form of percentage, the
percentage is 1.49. It means that most of the students are able to master those words. The students’ mastery of verb based on the percentage is not good. There
is only a verb that can be mastered 70 by the students. In the form of percentage, it is 0.81 of 123 verbs. It shows most of the students are able to
master a verb and it is sought. The number of adjective mastered 70 by the students is only 1 or 0.83
of 120 adjectives. It means that most of the students are able to master an adjective, i.e. adequate. Based on the table, the students are able to master an
adverb too. There is only 1 of 19 adverbs mastered 70 by the twelve grade students. It means that the students’ mastery of adverb is not good because there is
only an adverb mastered by most of the students who are taken as the samples of this research.