Examining the Vocabulary Levels of Indonesia’s
English National Examination Texts
This study is designed to create a corpus of junior high school (JHS) and senior high school (SHS) English National Examination (NE) texts used in Indonesia throughout four years of administration to form the basis of analysis. By means of corpus analysis, it sought to find out the vocabulary levels of junior and senior high school English NE texts. the number of interdisciplinary academic words the texts contain, and the number of words beyond the 2,000 high frequency English words the texts hold. Research results show that while JHS students are presumed to have lower English proficiency NE vocabulary of the level indicates the opposite.the number of words beyond
the 2,000 high frequency English words the texts hold. Research results show that
while JHS students are presumed to have lower English proficiency NE vocabulary of
the level indicates the opposite