Making Use of ICT To Assess The Students’ English Vocabulary  

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Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 463-470.
Topik: Assessment; Vocabulary; ICT
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The vocabulary assessment in university is usually provided by the lecturers and the students have just to answer the questions. It arises a question whether it is really to test the students’ vocabulary or it is just checking the students’ understanding based on the lecturer’ knowledge. This research aims to provide additional and alternative assessment to assess the students’ knowledge of the English vocabulary. In this kind of assessment, the students produce their own texts and the lecturer assesses those texts by using the Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The lecturer can make use of free downloaded program available at http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/AntWordprofiler/. After the texts are being assessed by using the AntWordProfiler program, it can be seen the mastery of the students’ production of the English vocabularies especially the academic ones. The Academic Word List (AWL) is one of the templates found in the AntWordProfiler program. Considering that the vocabulary assessed must also be based on the syllabus used, the texts are also analyzed by loading the target vocabularies learned in class into the AntWordProfiler program. The result is in the form of statistics showing how many target vocabularies learned in class used by the students in the text. Moreover, it can also be seen the repetition of words written by the students. Therefore, it can be seen whether the students are using the words in accordance with what is written the syllabus or not. The data is gained from the texts which topic is about global trade written by 29 university students studying in vocabulary class. The results show that the students use only 5.2% of academic words in average and the target words as being learned in class is even smaller to be used in the text. The average is only 4.9 words. In short, this alternative assessment is effective and accurate. It is also proven that the common vocabulary assessment provided by the teacher is not enough to assess the students’ mastery of the English vocabulary.

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