shows that not all students can master the words. Like what has been mentioned above, adverbs which can be mastered 100 by all of the students are only 6
words. They are automatically, nonetheless, overall, temporarily, thereby, and visibly
, while the other adverbs are only mastered 95 below. It is obviously seen in the table that there are only 3 conjunctions tested in
this research and all the conjunctions are mastered 100 by the twelve grade students. It means that though there are only a few numbers of conjunctions in the
test, all of the students can master those words 100. The table shows that the students’ mastery of conjunctions is good since they can achieve 100 mastery of
conjunctions tested in the academic vocabulary tests. The conjunctions are: albeit, despite,
and whereas. The analysis of the students’ mastery of academic words based on the
lexical category above shows that the number of words mastered 100 in table 4.8 is equal to the number of academic words mastered 100 in table 4.8, i.e. 317
words. On the other hand, it can be said that there are 317 academic words 100 mastered by the twelve grade students in SMA Negeri 1 Wonosari.
4.1.2.2.2 Academic words mastered 95 by the twelve grade students in SMA Negeri 1 Wonosari
This section discusses the academic words mastered 95 by the twelve grade students. It is also categorized based on lexical category. The following
table explains completely the words that are mastered 95 by the students. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Table 4.9 Academic words mastered 95 based on the lexical category
Lexical category Number of words
Number of words with 95
mastery Mastery
Noun 335
49 14.62
Verb 123
17 13.82
Adjective 120
24 20
Adverb 19
3 15.78
Number of words 600
93
Table 4.9 shows that 95 students’ mastery of academic words is 93 words and it is equivalent to 15.5 from 600 academic words tested in this research. Those
words consist of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs and they are discussed below.
Number of nouns mastered 95 based on the table is 49 words from 335 nouns or it is equivalent to 14.62. Ninety five percent mastery means that
almost all of the students are able to master the words well and only a student who are not able to master the words since he or she are not able to match the words
and the meanings. Table 4.9 shows that there are 17 verbs from 123 verbs in the tests and they are equal to 13.82. It means that the verbs that are 95 mastered
by the students are 17 verbs and only a student who are not able to understand those words.
There are 24 adjectives that can be 95 mastered by the twelve grade students. If it is counted in the form of percentage, 24 verbs from 120 adjectives is
20. On the other hand, it is said that almost all of the students are able to master the words since from all the samples; there is a few students who do not match the
words correctly. There are only 3 adverbs that can be 95 mastered by the twelve PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
grade students. It is equal to 15.78 of 19 adverbs tested in this research. It shows that there are only a few of adverbs mastered 95 by the twelve grade students.
4.1.2.2.3 Academic words mastered 90 by the twelve grade students in SMA Negeri 1 Wonosari
Table 4.10 below presents the students’ mastery of academic words mastered by the twelve grade students, especially the words which are 90
mastered. Ninety percent means that there are two students from twenty respondents who are not able to master the words.
Table 4.10 Academic words mastered 90 based on the lexical category
Lexical category Number of words
Number of words with 90
mastery Mastery
Noun 335
22 6.56
Verb 123
12 9.75
Adjective 120
9 7.5
Adverb 19
2 10.52
Number of words 600
45
From the table, it can be seen that the number of nouns mastered 90 is only 22 nouns of 335 nouns. It shows that the nouns mastered by the most of
respondents are 22 nouns or 6.56 of 335 nouns in the vocabulary test. The number of verbs mastered 90 is 12 words of 123 words. In the form of
percentage, it is 9.75 of 123 verbs. It means that there are only a few of verbs that can be mastered by the students.
