Designing A Corpus-Based Dictionary of K-3 Vocabulary in Textbook Bahasa Inggris Grade VII and IX

Abstract

Dictionary use is one of vocabulary learning strategy to learn English for students in Indonesia. However, the dictionary they use is a commercial dictionary that somehow is not suitable as the complement for their textbook. This study is about designing corpus-based dictionary of K-3 vocabulary in Bahasa Inggris textbook for grade VII and IX. It is a dictionary which is designed based on students’ textbook. The sample vocabulary items for this study were selected from students’ textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for grade VII and IX after deleting the propernouns, phonetic transcripts, numbers, Indonesian words and the pictures or illustrations. Documentary research method was used in this study. I selected the data randomly to be the 150 entry words for the dictionary. First, I used Compleat Lexical Tutor: VocabularyProfiler to categorize the words from the book into K3 vocabulary group. Then I used Concordance to provide the sample sentences for the 150-entry word dictionary of K3. The result was a 150-word corpus-based dictionary of K-3 vocabulary. The dictionary provided five sample sentences in each entry word using different grammatical features and provided meaning of different context. This dictionary can be a complement for Bahasa Inggris textbook grade VII and IX.