LEXICAL DENSITY FOUND ON THE BEGINNER STUDENTS’ ENGLISH VOCABULARIES IN AR-RIDHO ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL – CLASS EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE

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The aim of this research is to Lexical Density found in the beginner student’s English vocabularies while having a practice section. Lexical Density is a is a concept in computational linguistics that measures the structure and complexity of human communication in a language, which estimates the linguistic complexity either in a written or spoken composition from the functional words or grammatical units and content words, such as lexical units, lexemes. He also defined that this concept describes how dense information/idea is presented and realized by content words or lexical items, not by the function word or the grammatical items.  This research uses Qualitative Descriptive Method because it deals with phenomenon. the tools namely “analyze my writing” provide way to input lexical items found in collected students’ English vocabularies. The findings of this research are basic greeting, excuses, discussions, question and answers, and practices that contain lots of vocabularies and the percentages of Lexical Density are: 82.05% in spoken vocabularies and 100% in written vocabularies that spoken vocabularies consist of (15.38% Nouns, 7.69% Adjectives, 10.26% Verbs, 5.13% Adverbs, 2.56% Prepositions, 17.95% Auxiliary Verbs).