The Vocabulary Profile of English Used in The Jakarta Post

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to profile the vocabulary of the genres on The Jakarta Post, to show lists of vocabulary that were not covered in the genres, and to show the token (number of word) recycling index of the genres. A descriptive method and purposeful sampling were used in this study. There were five genres selected from that newspaper and those five genres were Business, Sport, Opinion, Feature and Entertainment. The analysis of this study used a tool name Compleat Lexical Tutor which can be accessed at lextutor.ca. The result of this study showed that the cumulative percentage of K-1, K-2 and AWL words from the overall profile of the genres was 89.51%. The negative vocabulary profile of K-1 showed that the word families not found in the genres were 13.38%. The word families not found in K-2 were 51.62%. While in K-3 the word families which were not found was 34.09%.