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frequencies of the material.
1. Context of The Study
The context of this study was the English Language Education program of the Faculty of Language and Literature in Satya Wacana Christian University. The students in this study
program have to take compulsory courses, and one of the required skill courses is Academic Listening. Academic Listening course was the last listening course in this study program, so
the vocabulary was expected to contain adequate academic words appropriate for intermediate to advanced level students. Meanwhile, Satya Wacana Christian University in
Salatiga has implemented a new curriculum named Indonesian National Qualification Framework. Due to the change of the curriculum, the material of this course has to undergo
some modifications. The number of the academic credit for this course was increased from three to four. As a result, there must be addition in the lexical coverage of its material.
2. Material
The material for the purpose of this present study was Academic Listening material used in English Language Education program of FLL for the 20152016 academic year. Since
there has been the implementation of the new curriculum, the newest material designed for Academic Listening course in Satya Wacana Christian University has not been investigated
yet. The material was used by the students and teacher in a twenty-eight-meeting semester. Only the audio-visual materials such as audio recordings and a short movie were taken to
analyse since this study focused on the language exposure for listening skills. Considering the validity and reliability, the audio-visual materials used in all meetings were analysed.
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3. Data Collection Instrument
This study used vocabulary profiler that can be accessed from http:www.lextutor.ca to get the data. This
Lextutor
program is an electronic tool for profiling vocabulary, created by Tom Cobb in 1999. The online program breaks down words in the text to four
classifications which are K1 1-1,000 most common words, K2 1,001-2,000 most common words, Academic Word Lists, and Off-list words.
4. Data Collection Procedures
