ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY LEVEL MEASUREMENT RELATED WITH STUDENTS’ READING HABIT
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
According to Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 3rd Edition, “vocabulary is all the words which exist in a particular language or subject”. In other word, vocabulary can define as basic unit of the language. Because it contains meaning, people will definitely use it to communicate each other. Vocabulary production can be specified in speaking and writing.
Vocabulary size scores as level indicators is a good indicator of reading and writing ability (Milton, 2004). Word knowledge is crucial to reading comprehension and determines how well students will be able to comprehend the texts they read (Sedita, 2005).
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Vocabulary which is in one line with reading and writing make the researcher curious, how far did the students’ vocabulary knowledge encourage students’ in creating reading habit. Meanwhile, research about the relation between vocabulary level measurement and reading habit is rarely found in Indonesia. Most of the researchers conducted the research in theme of implementation of strategy and technique in particular skill like reading, speaking, writing, or listening. Also, the similar previous study has the ESL learners as the participants. In this case, I attempt to find the problem: In what level of vocabulary are the compositions of the students who have different reading habit?
1.2 Research Questions
Language learners should know about the importance of vocabulary knowledge in reading habit. From this statement, there is a problem that needs to be investigated: In what level of vocabulary are the compositions of the students who have different reading habit?
In line with the study above, this present study tries to answer these following questions:
1. In what level of vocabulary are the compositions of the students who have good reading
The ideas presented in Anabelle 's paper reflected on her understanding of Zinn 's history and brought ideas that I, personally, never thought of, which showed her critical thinking skills. She grasped the core of Zinn 's writing thoughts and contributed her own ideas, which I agreed with, and the level of vocabulary and language Anabelle used also allowed for her essay to be easily read and persuasive. I really admired her interpretations because they were accurate and I was able to tell she spent time interpretating Zinn 's words and ideas. Her use of language and certain vocabulary emphasized the points she was getting across, also her quotes. The quotes helped Anabelle 's thoughts, but she didn 't source them, which would had made her essay
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Pages T180-T183 are examples of this instruction. The leveled reader has students previewing and predicting the text along with a thorough discussion of the genre, and then close reading with note taking skills, and responses after the text is read. Fluency is especially stressed for the beyond level students. For vocabulary a gifted or talented student may be asked to review the lesson on homographs as previously mentioned and then be expected to use one homograph two times in one sentence each time with a different meaning. Comprehension instruction covers cause and effect relationships.
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• Outcomes - students will be able to : ENe-8B-Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter. EN1-11D-responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences. EN1-9B-uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts. EN-10C-thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts.
As each writing assignments is graded, I realize how much I have improved as a writer by the grade and the fewer mistakes that I have made in them. As each time the grammatical and spelling mistakes are fewer on each paper. I want to share how I have grown as a writer on second semester by being in class and reflecting on my previous assignments. Even though there weren’t many writing assignments this semester. There were some assignments that I have done poorly on.
It is important for someone to have an extensive vocabulary; you should not put a cap on your vocabulary. Malcolm X in his autobiography describes how he went into prison having an awful vocabulary and not being able to write in a straight line. He admired another inmate because of his knowledge and how; when he started a conversation; he took charge every time. Not only is it good to have a broad vocabulary but, it comes with power.
I generally begin my pre-writing with a healthy dose of procrastination, much like what I am doing right at this very moment. This is unfortunately due to an inherent flaw in my psyche, a crack in my foundation if you will, so there’s not much I can really do about it. I love pre-writing because I get to procrastinate on the actual writing portion by spending a ridiculous amount time on researching and building my outlines. Contrary to what you might think, my prewriting actually tends to be highly organized.
In conclusion, the process of reading is incorporated throughout our daily lives. Without it, many people struggle to understand, correlate, and even express themselves in an enlightening manner. With that in mind, comprehension, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and oral language are the six essential components that compose a well-developed
Justification: (approximately 100-150 words) Based on Nicole’s SDQA scoring sheet, her instructional level was not determined because she did not score two errors on any level. She scored at 5th grade independent level and 6th grade frustration level. Her score sheet reveals that her reading skills strengths include phonemic awareness and letter-sound knowledge and decoding because she recognized letter patterns in some of the words she misread. This leads me to believe that Nicole has strong phonic analysis skills and a high sight word vocabulary which allows her the confidence to attempt reading multisyllabic words. Nicole’s reading level should begin at the 4th grade level because the last grade-level word list scored as independent was 5th grade.
The reader acquires a variety of vocabulary thus increases the quality of writing and reading for low level readers. Secondly, it makes the reader be able to interpret text by using word attack skills and text attack skills which improves the skill of reading. Lastly, it makes the reader to understand or comprehend difficult text in a book or reading material. Drawbacks or limitations of intensive reading are firstly, most time is spent on reading a small amount of text which is time consuming. Secondly, Reading new material mostly containing complex vocabulary and grammar is a long and slow process in order for the reader to understand the text in the reading material.