Readability Assessment of Reading Texts in Pathway to English for SMA MA Grade X
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53682/kompetensi.v1i04.1856Keywords:
Readability, Reading Text, TextbookAbstract
The purpose of the study is to describe readability of reading texts in textbook
Pathway to English for SMA MA Grade X published by Erlangga The study is a
quantitative content analysis The source of the data was the textbook and only reading
texts with minimally 150 words in length were taken as the sample 22 reading texts
that matched the criteria were analyzed quantitatively in percentage form Result of the
data analysis shows that reveals that 9 or 41 reading texts match tenth grade level
but the rest 4 or 18 reading texts are to easy at 7th 8th grade level and 9 or 41
reading texts are are fairly difficult to difficult at 11th 16th grade level Put it another
way 59 reading texts with minimally 150 words in length selected for use in EFL
textbook Pathway to English published by Penerbit Erlangga in 2016 were not in
accordance with tenth grade SMA students readability level In addition It was also
found that the data show that readability level of a text do not depend on text length < p>
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