Assessment of Readability Level of Reading Materials in Indonesia EFL Textbooks (original) (raw)
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Assuming that textbooks authors have conducted the readability measure, many of its users often take this key feature of a good textbook for granted. Nonetheless, considering the unique context of each classroom and the generic nature of textbooks written for the public, teachers should double-check the appropriateness of the book they use, including its readability. Although tech-assisted readability measurement is developing in many parts of the world, in Indonesia, this area is still under-researched. For this reason, the present study attempts to examine the readability level of an English textbook using Coh-Metrix. Content analysis is employed since the object being analyzed is a textbook. This study also expands previous studies on readability measures by building dialogue between the result of Coh-Metrix measurement and the students’ perceived readability. To obtain the data, an automated Coh-Metrix readability measurement was conducted via cohmetrix.com. Also, to get more profound analysis, a questionnaire on students’ perceived readability was distributed to 35 tenth graders. Then the collected data were analyzed by using interactive model of Miles and Huberman. The finding of this study revealed that regardless of the slight difference between the perceived readability level and the Coh-Metrix-generated readability level, most of the texts in the book are mostly below the students’ level. Arguably, the textbook is relatively potential for language acquisition because it provides comprehensible input.
An Analysis on Language Content and Readability Level of Primary English Textbook
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Teaching English is not easy. Teachers will sacrifice their time and energy to prepare better students in a constantly growing competitive environment. Textbook is one of many media that is used by the teacher to teach their students. So, choosing the textbook should be done selectively. This study was conducted to analyse language content and the readability level with Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formula. The study employed descriptive qualitative analysis methods. The data and source of data of this research was adopted from an English textbook entitled Learning Daily English for Grade 5 Elementary School published by Grafindo Media Pratama. All of the passages were concluded as good text because each text had relation to the thematic subject and the vocabulary existed in the text were daily used vocabulary. In terms of readability level, there were 5 texts that had a suitable level of readability. The other 6 texts were below the grade and age level. The other two texts were above...
The Readability Level of English Reading Texts in Senior High School Textbooks
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This research aims to reveal (1) the types of texts in Bahasa Inggris SMA for Grade X Semester 1 revised edition of 2017 published by the Ministry of Education and Culture, (2) the readability level of the reading texts in the textbook using a cloze test, (3) the readability level of reading texts in the textbook using Fry Graphs and the SMOG Formula, (4) the differences of the readability level of reading texts based on the types of the texts in the textbook, (5) the factors affecting the readability level based on the results of the cloze test, Fry Graph and SMOG Formula, (6) the most suitable formula for the results of the cloze test. This research is quantitative descriptive research. The subjects are the texts in the textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris SMA for Grade X Semester 1 and the objects are the tenth grade students of state senior high schools in the city of Yogyakarta. The research procedure is divided into four stages, consisting of: (1) procurement of data, namely deter...
AN ANALYSIS ON READABILITY OF ENGLISH READING TEXTS FOR GRADE IX STUDENTS AT MTsN 2 KOTA BENGKULU
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