This paper reports the findings in investigating lexical diversity and lexical sophistication of productive vocabulary in the written discourse of Indonesian EFL learners. Thirty one students at high school level participated in this study; 15 students were from B1 level and 16 students were from B2 level according to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students’ written compositions were used as the main data for this study. The gauge was done based on the result of the calculation of lexical frequency profile (LFP). The result of the calculation showed that the lexical diversity index of students at higher level was greater than that of students at lower level. In addition, based on the calculation per LFP category, it was found that the two groups shared similar patterns of lexical diversity index in which most varied vocabulary used in their writings falls into the second most common 1000 wordlist, followed by vocabulary that belongs to “not in the lists” category and AWL, respectively. Subsequently, the first common 1000 words category became the least varied words used by the learners. In terms of lexical sophistication, it was found that the percentage of advanced vocabulary used by less proficient learners was slightly larger than the percentage of advanced vocabulary used by more proficient learners. However, there was no significant difference found between two groups of learners in terms of lexical diversity and lexical sophistication.
It is generally considered that knowing one language is not enough in this era. People need to learn a second language in addition to their mother tongue to meet the demand of today’s life as many of them are becoming a part of multilingual society as well as to face the globalisation. This paper aims to demonstrate the reasons of people learning a second by looking at the several goals they want to achieve in current situation and link it to the second language learning in education context. Subsequently, it also provides some criticism against the majority of English language teachings that set native speaker’s competence as the ultimate goal and highlights the concept of L2 user as a new paradigm and its implication to second language learning.
STEM saat ini tengah menjadi isu penting dalam dunia pendidikan. Pendekatan STEM pada dasarnya mengintegrasikan empat komponen yakni sains, teknologi, enjinering dan matematika ke dalam proses pembelajaran. Jika dahulu keempat komponen tersebut dipahami sebagai hal yang berbeda dan terpisah, maka sekarang komponen tersebut dintegrasikan sebagai satu kesatuan yang saling terkait untuk menciptakan sebuah sistem pembelajaran aktif dan aplikatif berbasis problem solving.
Meskipun UN kini bukan lagi alat penentu kelulusan, melainkan sebagai alat pemetaan kualitas pendidikan, namun kita tentunya berharap data yang diperoleh benar-benar valid dan reliable agar apa yang dipetakan benar-benar akurat. Pada pelaksanaan UN selama ini, banyak kita menjumpai siswa yang bermasalah dengan bulatan hitam di lembar jawaban, misalnya rusak, kotor, keluar garis sehingga tidak terbaca oleh komputer. Bisa jadi jawaban siswa benar, namun karena tidak terbaca maka dianggap salah. Meskipun akan merugikan siswa pada akhirnya, namun karena hal ini pula, keabsahan data yang diperoleh mungkin akan berkurang. Keunggulan Ujian Berbasis komputer salah satunya terletak di sini. Siswa tidak perlu lagi khawatir bulatan hitamnya rusak atau tidak terbaca, karena jawaban di komputer akan bisa dikoreksi dengan mudah. Sehingga kesahihan data yang diperoleh pun bisa lebih terjamin
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