Corpus Analysis of Academic Vocabulary in Students' Thesis Proposal Writing at English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

This thesis discusses the academic vocabulary used in thesis proposal by seventh semester students. The problem of this research is how academic vocabulary used by seventh semester students in their thesis proposal. This research is conducted using quantitative method. In order to achieve the goal, the researcher comprises 15 thesis proposal documents from seventh semester students in academic year 2018/2019 and the thesis proposal were analysed through an application called AntWordProfiler by Anthony Laurence. The researcher uses Academic Vocabulary List (AWL) compiled by Averil Coxhead as an instrument and as a standardized tool of measurement that included to the application. The result of this research based on the finding and discussion; this research figured out that academic vocabulary used by seventh semester students are quite high with 11.92% academic word list token from 66419 of running words. Specifically, there are fourteen out of fifteen analysed documents are including to academic work / journal. Since, the academic word list has to cover approximately 10% in a piece of academic document. Furthermore, students’ knowledge about academic vocabulary can still continue to grow as long as they learn and practice using academic vocabulary in their work.