Mapping Vocabulary: A corpus-based comparison of Indonesian fourth-grade students' writing and English language textbooks

This study compares the vocabulary used by Indonesian fourth-grade students in their free writing with that taught English language textbooks to assist teachers developing relevant learning materials for young learners. To achieve this, researchers employed corpus linguistic method and analyzed writings of 369 from 19 public elementary schools Malang, East Java, Indonesia, along five selected textbooks. The University Adelaide Text Analysis Tool program, AdTAT, was analyze corpus. program generated word lists consisting top 100 words most frequently findings revealed a 45% match between suggests there is significant overlap implication this need recognize basic acquire before new successful target language. should incorporate more culturally into teaching better engage motivate students. can also curriculum developers designing effective