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a. The Findings of the Sixth Semester Students of ELESP Sanata Dharma
University Preliminary Test
The researcher conducted the preliminary test to the sixth semester students of ELESP Sanata Dharma on April 4, 2016. The test was conducted in Kampus I
Sanata Dharma on Mrican Micro Teaching Laboratory. There were 14 Micro Teaching students involved in the test. The result of the preliminary test is presented
as follows:
Table 4.1 The Findings of the Preliminary Test
Section of Test
Students’ Total Scores
Rank
1
st
1,000 117
1 2
nd
1,000 100
2 3
rd
1,000 90
4 4
th
1,000 85
5 5
th
1,000 99
3 6
th
1,000 58
7 7
th
1,000 51
8 8
th
1,000 78
6 9
th
1,000 33
9 10
th
1,000 31
10 11
th
1,000 18
12 12
th
1,000 20
11 13
th
1,000 8
13 14
th
1,000 7
14
The result of the preliminary test was then multiplied by 100. Table 4.1 shows that the first five 1,000 which are the high-frequency words give the better
score compared to the rest of the words. The highest score was in the 1
st
1,000 with 11,700 words. Meanwhile the lowest score was in the 14
th
1,000 with only 700 words. The mean of the sixth semester students’ vocabulary size was 5,678 words.
33 The findings of the preliminary test shows that it was easier to do the 1
st
up to the 5
th
1,000 words since the students have already been familiar with the words. The students can easily find the high-frequency words in the academic books, daily
conversation, and et cetera. Yet, it can be concluded that the sixth semester students of ELESP Sanata
Dharma University were still confused with the low-frequency words and probably they were not familiar and not accustomed yet to use the low-frequency words.
Accordingly, the researcher was able to formulate the instrument objective which is explained in the next step.
2. Development of the Instrument
After getting the findings of the preliminary test, the researcher later on decided to design a vocabulary size test for the sixth semester students of ELESP
Sanata Dharma University. There were four activities in making the design. The activities were explained as follows:
a. Sampling the Words for the Test Items
The researcher took the samples of the test items from the General Service List. The researcher found that the GSL consists of around 2,300 words. Thus, the
test were divided into ten levels with each level ranges of 230 words. Then, the sampling method of selecting words is interval sampling. The researcher took one
word in every multiples of ten word list. The difficulty of the test increases from the high-frequency words to low-frequency words. The word targets was listed as
follows: PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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