Vocabulary profiling of third year students of English in critical essays

الملخص EN

This study was set out to investigate vocabprofile (VP) use to assess student’s productive vocabulary size in critical essays.

third-year students at the department of English were selected randomly to analyse learners 'critical essays.

thus, 10 writing samples build from written assignments, and then student essays were analysed using (VP) to generate student’s vocabulary profiles according to word families, type, and tokens ratio and match it with available vocabulary frequency lists.

the overall profile shows that words used by the student mostly belonged to the first (K-1) with vocabulary coverage, (77.20%) and then followed by awl with vocabulary coverage (10.90%).

the second (K-2) is the least frequently used word (5%) indicating that it is below the necessary level (95%) in the written essay.