Block Frequency Output of Off-list Words Comparison of Vocabulary Frequency across Materials Used in Each Meeting

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3. Block Frequency Output of Off-list Words

For the reason that each of Off-list words could not be sorted into certain word families, the negative vocabulary of this category is not able to be analysed. Consequently, this study utilized the vocabulary profiler to count the frequency of Off-list words. This online tool sorted the data in a descending order from high to low and frequency-blocked them per ten words. The data analysed covered 1,361 types and 2,600 tokens of Off-list words. Table 9 shows the three highest block frequency of Off-list words. In the table, RANK is the ranking of words, FREQ is the number of word occurrence in the text, COVERAGE is the percentage of individual and cumulative word occurrences, and the last column contains the vocabulary items. The complete list of the block frequency has been put in Appendix D. The frequency list yielded by the tool in the vocabulary profiler could probably serve as clues to make a selection of useful and relevant words to teach. Table 9. The three highest block-frequency output of Off-list words RANK FREQ COVERAGE WORD individ. cumulative 1. 1 0.07 0.07 ABACK 2. 1 0.07 0.14 ABBREVIATE 3. 1 0.07 0.21 ABBREVIATED 4. 1 0.07 0.28 ABBREVIATIONS 5. 1 0.07 0.35 ABSORBED 6. 1 0.07 0.42 ABSORBING 7. 1 0.07 0.49 ABSORBS 8. 1 0.07 0.56 ABUNDANCE 9. 1 0.07 0.63 ACCLAIM 10. 1 0.07 0.70 ACCOMPLISH 11. 1 0.07 0.77 ACE 12. 1 0.07 0.84 AD 17 13. 1 0.07 0.91 ADMISSIONS 14. 1 0.07 0.98 ADO 15. 1 0.07 1.05 ADOLESCENCE 16. 1 0.07 1.12 ADVISOR 17. 1 0.07 1.19 AERIAL 18. 1 0.07 1.26 AERONAUTICS 19. 1 0.07 1.33 AFFECTION 20. 1 0.07 1.40 AGENDA 21. 1 0.07 1.47 AGGIE 22. 1 0.07 1.54 AGGRESSIVENESS 23. 1 0.07 1.61 AIRPORT 24. 1 0.07 1.68 AIRY 25. 1 0.07 1.75 AJAR 26. 1 0.07 1.82 ALERT 27. 1 0.07 1.89 ALGEBRA 28. 1 0.07 1.96 ALLERGEN 29. 1 0.07 2.03 ALLERGIC 30. 1 0.07 2.10 ALLERGIES

4. Comparison of Vocabulary Frequency across Materials Used in Each Meeting

This section compares the finding of vocabulary profile of the Academic Listening material across meeting. Table 10 shows the comparison of K1, K2, AWL, and Off-list frequencies among materials used in each Academic Listening course meeting. As can be seen in Table 10, for the K1 category, the highest coverage was found in the material for meeting 2 with 92.69 and the lowest was for meeting 11 which only comprised 79.06 of K1. The highest and lowest proportions of K2 were respectively found in the material for meeting 16 7.24 and 8 2.65. The AWL coverage ranged from 0.94 meeting 17 to 7.20 meeting 10. For the Off-list category, the highest coverage was found in meeting 17 with 7.24 and the lowest was in meeting 2 with only 1.18 of Off-list. The amount of word frequency level in each meeting may highly depend on the main topic of the discussion. Few materials for the Academic Listening course meeting 2, 5, 14, 24, and 27 reached the least 95 from the cumulative of K1 and K2. Moreover, there were materials for ten meetings in which the cumulative percentage of K1, K2, and AWL could not cover the 18 required percentage for a good understanding. Thus, according to Nation 2006, the material could generally be described as linguistically complex for advanced language users, such as students in university level Schmitt Schmitt, 2012. Table 10. Comparison of word frequency levels Chapters K1 words K2 words AWL words Off-list words Meeting 1 Cumulative 86.89 86.89 5.86 92.75 3.13 95.88 4.12 100 Meeting 2 Cumulative 92.69 92.69 4.35 97.04 1.78 98.82 1.18 100 Meeting 3 Cumulative 88.52 88.52 3.57 92.09 6.58 98.67 1.33 100 Meeting 4 Cumulative 87.31 87.31 5.76 93.07 2.18 95.25 4.75 100 Meeting 5 Cumulative 89.91 89.91 5.62 95.53 2.17 97.70 2.30 100 Meeting 6 Cumulative 89.54 89.54 4.03 93.57 2.76 96.33 3.67 100 Meeting 7 Cumulative 86.43 86.43 4.89 91.32 2.81 94.13 5.87 100 Meeting 8 Cumulative 86.16 86.16 2.65 88.81 4.33 93.14 6.86 100 Meeting 9 Cumulative 86.24 86.24 4.22 90.46 2.51 92.97 7.03 100 Meeting 10 Cumulative 82.31 82.31 3.75 86.06 7.20 93.26 6.74 100 Meeting 11 Cumulative 79.06 79.06 6.63 85.69 6.17 91.86 8.14 100 Meeting 12 Cumulative 83.17 83.17 6.36 89.53 3.96 93.49 6.51 100 19 Meeting 13 Cumulative 85.77 85.77 4.03 89.80 4.83 94.63 5.37 100 Meeting 14 Cumulative 90.83 90.83 4.85 95.68 2.11 97.79 2.21 100 Meeting 15 Cumulative 87.14 87.14 4.02 91.16 5.71 96.87 3.13 100 Meeting 16 Cumulative 83.31 83.31 7.24 90.55 3.94 94.49 5.51 100 Meeting 17 Cumulative 85.16 85.16 6.66 91.82 0.94 92.76 7.24 100 Meeting 18 Cumulative 89.50 89.50 4.12 93.62 4.32 97.94 2.06 100 Meeting 19 Cumulative 87.80 87.80 3.77 91.57 6.05 97.62 2.38 100 Meeting 20 Cumulative 87.55 87.55 5.71 93.26 3.67 96.93 3.07 100 Meeting 21 Cumulative 88.24 88.24 4.99 93.23 3.71 96.94 3.06 100 Meeting 22 Cumulative 87.65 87.65 5.20 92.85 4.11 96.96 3.04 100 Meeting 23 Cumulative 87.31 87.31 4.73 92.04 3.71 95.75 4.25 100 Meeting 24 Cumulative 90.10 90.10 5.56 95.66 1.22 96.88 3.12 100 Meeting 25 Cumulative 85.40 85.40 3.73 89.13 5.24 94.37 5.63 100 Meeting 26 Cumulative 88.15 88.15 6.27 94.42 2.20 96.62 3.38 100 Meeting 27 Cumulative 89.40 89.40 6.04 95.44 1.94 97.38 2.62 100 Meeting 28 Cumulative 86.89 84.88 5.86 92.75 3.13 95.88 4.12 100 20

5. Text Comparison of Materials