Criteria

Category

Interview

Priority

Frequency

Familiarity

Coverage

Teach Ability

Important words: nouns and verbs

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Examination words

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New words

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Difficult words

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Not familiar

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Words based on themes

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Words based on topics

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Vocabulary based on verbal communication in or outside school

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Repeated in the life of a student

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Repeated in learning texts

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Repeated words

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Based on students’ experiences learning such vocabulary

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Repeated in the examination

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familiar or close to the students

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Often encountered

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Related to topics familiar to students

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Often repeated in daily life

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Varieties based on topics or outside the topics such as the usage of “lughatulfasli” for communication with the teacher in school and inside the class.

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Refer to concrete meanings

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Have meanings easy to be explained

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Contain obvious meanings

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Be made up of easy words

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Be appropriate with the students’ level

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Be limited in number

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Observation

Based on students’ real lives

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New, essential vocabulary related to topic

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Related to Malay word: تعارف (taa’ruf)

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Frequency and repetition as in the learning text

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The ease in explaining its meaning:

الأم - عائلتي - زميلي

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Abstract words: يعلّم ? خير

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A situation closely related to students’ lives but rarely used; الكعك

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New words; بطاقة - الميلادعيد - حلوةسنة - كلعاموأنتمبالخير

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Words for general situation like birthday greeting;

عيدالميلادسعيد - سنةحلوة

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Document

Learning aspect (social): Theme-based criterion

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