Readability of English Reading Text in Textbook and Handout of Grade Eleventh at SMAN 1 Padang Sago

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210914.043How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The textbook and the handout, the reading Texts, Readability Level

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find readability level of the reading texts in the textbook and the handout by using cloze test at the eleventh grade of SMAN 1 Padang Sago. This study has used 20 reading texts and 60 students as the sources of the data. The writer has taken 20 reading texts and the students of grade eleventh that consist of 60 students. This study has used descriptive analysis as the method by using quantitative data. The researcher has conducted the research by giving the test to the students in Close test model. The researcher found 17 texts have the average score more than 50%. The result of this research is reading texts were categorized as the Independent level which the students could understand them by their own understanding and the texts are categorized as quite easy. Furthermore, 3 text is below 50% which belongs to instructional level. These texts could be understood by the students but the teacher should give any instruction or guidance in understanding the texts. Then, the texts were predicted belongs to middle level; it’s correct score between 35%-50%. The result of this study is the writer got the average score of textbook reading texts is 68.04%; while the handout get the score 87.64%. So, the conclusion is readability level of reading texts in the textbook is lower than handout.

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AU  - Asminar
AU  - Hermawati Syarif
AU  - Zul Amri
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/14
TI  - Readability of English Reading Text in Textbook and Handout of Grade Eleventh at SMAN 1 Padang Sago
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT-8 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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