Abstract

Self assessment is one of parts in assessment process. This process helps the students evaluate their own work and learning process. This study try to implement one of self assessments, namely Type Token Ratio (TTR). It calculates word repetition by deviding the total number of words in a text (tokens) by the number of individual words. This self assessment will be used to only one type of personalities, namely introverted students. The aims of the study are describing the types of token that most used by the introverted students, describing the types of token rarely used by the introverted students, and describing the introverted students opinion about Type Token Ratio (TTR) for their writing. The descriptive qualitative method was implemented in this study. the sources of the data were taken from twenty students of first semester in English Educational Program of UNISDA Lamongan. The findings showed that types of token most used by the introverted students are: nouns appear 466 times, verbs appear 266 times, pronouns appear 266 times and prepositions appear 251 times. Whereas, they rarey used: adverbs appears 171 times, determiners appears 159 times, conjunctions appear 123 times, adjectives appear 94 times and interjections appear 7 times. Based on the result, it can be concluded that the introverted students most often use noun and most rarely use interjection in their writing. Almost all of students think that TTR is good and help them to measure their vocabulary variety.Key words: Self Assessment, Writing Skill, Introverted

Highlights

  • Writing is the 4th language skill that learners need to work hard on to master

  • This study try to implement one of self assessments, namely Type Token Ratio (TTR). It calculates word repetition by deviding the total number of words in a text by the number of individual words. This self assessment will be used to only one type of personalities, namely introverted students

  • The aims of the study are describing the types of token that most used by the introverted students, describing the types of token rarely used by the introverted students, and describing the introverted students’ opinion about Type Token Ratio (TTR) for their writing

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Introduction

Writing is the 4th language skill that learners need to work hard on to master. Writing is considered as the most complicated and challenging language skill compared to the other three ones as it has to produce correct and appropriate text. Writing needs the processes of planning, drafting, editing, revising, and evaluating. (Widosari, et all, 2017, p.280) There are many language components need to be included in writing such as vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and spelling. Evaluating the vocabulary variety is necessary to measure how far students’ understanding in mastering vocabulary. The lecturers should know the development of students’ ability in mastering vocabulary. They need to do an evaluation to measure students’ vocabulary. One of the measurement that can be used is Type Token Ratio (TTR). (Thomas, 2005: Knight, et al, 2016; Syarif, 2017; Tatiana, et al, 2017)

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