A corpus-based wordlist of grade-12 English O-NET examinations

This study aimed to gather the most frequent content words occurring in the grade 12 O-NET examination of English subjects and to compare the proportion of word families in General Service List (GSL) and Academic Word List (AWL) in ONET Word List (OWL). 10 grade 12 O-NET examinations in English subject were compiled to create the O-NET Examination Corpus. Coxhead’s frequency criterion for Academic Word List was applied to word selecting criteria of the O-NET Word List. Every word family occurring 5 and more than 5 times from 10 examinations were included in the wordlist. The software called AntWordProfiler was used to analyze and generate the O-NET Word List. After excluding the function words, 419 word families were displayed on the OWL. The results revealed that 81.62 percent of the OWL’s word families belonged to 1st 1,000 of GSL, 12.89 percent of word families belonged to 2nd 1,000 of GSL, 4.30 percent were AWL, and the other 1.19 percent did not belong to previous wordlist. O-NET Word List was created to help both students and teachers for O-NET examinations. Students can learn and study many important words from it. While teachers can decide which sets of vocabulary that they should focus and introduce to students to improve their lesson. Besides, OWL is a great tool for building the basic foundation of English vocabulary for every EFL learners