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Tesa Febriza: 2319108, “Female Students’ Vocabulary Knowledge Level on English Loanwords in Bahasa at the Fifth Semester of English Education Department at UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi”, A Thesis, State Islamic University of Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, 2023. This research was motivated by some problems related to English loanwords. First, generally students had problems in their vocabulary and most of them were female students. Second, female students were often seen and heard English loanwords because so many loanwords around them, but they did not have awareness to loanwords. Third, female students often used English loanwords in their daily activity such as in fashion, cosmetics, and food terms, but they did not take the advantage of it to improve their English vocabulary. Related to the problems, the researcher wanted to find out female students’ vocabulary knowledge level on English loanwords in Bahasa. The type of this research was descriptive quantitative. The research population was the fifth semester students of English department at UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi with the total number of population was 81 students. The sample selection was done by using purposive sampling technique with the total of the sample was 59 female students from three classes. Purposive sampling was chosen because most of them were female. The research data were obtained from vocabulary knowledge test, adapted and adopted from Paribakht and Wesche VKS test. The instrument was analyzed statistically by using Excel 2010. The research data showed that generally female students’ vocabulary knowledge level on English loanwords in Bahasa at level four. It means, most of them have seen, heard and used English loanwords, they knew the meaning of the words, know the synonym in Bahasa, and had ability to return the loanword into English with correct spelling, but they could not make sentences that are grammatically and contextually correct. Besides that, English loanwords contribute a lot to help students learning English vocabulary because English loanwords and English vocabularies have similarities in form and meaning.