10 Lambert 2012, descriptive method can be done to analyze a particular case, person, or
place. They stated that the data are analyzed descriptively to answer the research question. Based on these explanations, this study described the vocabulary profiler of economic
students’ textbook in Management and Global Business Strategy Course at Management Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, Satya Wacana Christian University. The
description included four categories of words, which are K-1, K-2, AWL, and
Off-Lists Words
OLW of students’ textbook entitled International Business: Environment and
Operations Fifteenth Edition published by Pearson Education Limited 2015.
B. Sample of the Study
A students’ textbook entitled International Business: Environment and Operations Fifteenth Edition was used as the sample in this research, which consists of six chapters. The
total number of pages were 877. The book discusses many theories related to national and international business that provides some cases to be solved, such as national environment
differences, connecting countries through trade, etc. It also discusses about some policies and terms in doing a business, that is being placed in all over the worlds, such as global markets,
labor demographics, etc. This study used a systematic sampling, selecting the samples systematically and equally
throughout the textbook Vaughan, 2003. The samples were collected by selecting five percent of the book with the hope that it had already represented the whole book. Second,
because of the time limitation, the researcher took five percent of the whole book as the sample in the study. The selection was made every 20 pages starting from page 44 to 851 so
that the total number of the sample was 41 pages, which were 44, 64, 84, 104, 124, 144, 164, 184, 204, 224, 244, 264, 284, 304, 324, 344, 364, 384, 404, 424, 444, 464, 484, 504, 524,
544, 564, 584, 604, 624, 644, 664, 684, 704, 724, 744, 764, 784, 804, 824, and 844.
11 The selection of the textbook was based on the following criteria. First, the book is for
university students who are expected to comprehend academic words. These words are rarely used in daily life so that it is essential to be learnt by the learners who study English for
Academic Purposes. Second, the book is used in Management and Global Business Strategy Course at Management Program, which has a concentration program called an International
Business in regular class. The communication between students-students and students-teacher uses
Indonesia
most of the time. However, the students’ textbook is written in English also the students are required to work using English for the final project, and presentation.
However, it may affect the students’ performance in delivering the material discussion also
understanding some specific terms used in economic and business area, especially in management, since they use
Indonesia
as the language of instruction.
C. Research Instrument
