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vocabulary knowledge so that it could give clearer picture of the students’ vocabulary knowledge. The scale of scoring was not used because the test results
were not scored instead the words which the students have written in the VKS were tabulated.
The tested verbs were taken from Collins Cobuild Dictionary. They were see, get, keep, take, draw, make, run, kill, carry, and ask. The ten tested verbs
were all high frequency words. High frequency verbs were chosen because they usually had more extended meaning than the low frequency words so that they
could give more opportunity to the students to explore their vocabulary
knowledge in the test. See Appendix II for the instrument used.
D. Data Gathering Procedure
The subjects were asked to give a selfreport of their knowledge on 10 the tested verbs using the modified version of Vocabulary Knowledge Scale. They
had two minutes to give self report on every verb, so that the data gathering lasted for twenty minutes. The data was collected on 9 October 2006. The researcher
himself collected the data. The procedure of collecting the data was generally divided into three parts: preparation, administering the test, and data collection.
1. Preparation Modifying the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale.
Choosing the verbs to be tested from “Collins Cobuild English Dictionary” Obtaining permission to the lecturer whose class was intended to be tested.
2. Administering the test Explaining the general intention of the test.
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Distributing the test sheets. Announcing the time limitation and the prohibition of using dictionary.
3. Data collection The results of the test were not scored; instead the meaning of the tested
verbs which the students had written in the VKS was tabulated into the table of inventory of meaning.
Since the focus of the study was on the third semester students’ depth of vocabulary knowledge, for those who were not the students of the intended
semesters but taking the class shoppers their works were put aside.
E. Data Analysis Procedure
In order to answer the problem formulation mentioned in Chapter I: What is the depth of vocabulary knowledge acquired by the third semester students of
English Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University? The procedure of data analysis is presented as follows:
1. From the ten tested verbs only five verbs see, keep, get, make, ask were chosen to be discussed for reason of manageability, financial and time
consideration. 2. Tabulating the data.
3. In order to see the depth of vocabulary knowledge of the students, the results of the test were analyzed using related theories reviewed in chapter II.
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
This chapter presents the results of the study and the discussion on interpretation of the results. The results of the study concern the meaning of the
tested verbs and their occurrence. Those two aspects are expected to reveal the depth of vocabulary knowledge acquired by the third semester students of English
Education Department of Sanata Dharma University. The discussion covers the discussion on the students’ L2 vocabulary meaning mapping and the cases of the
students’ inacurrate meaning mapping.
A. Results
