THE READABILITY LEVEL OF THE READING TEXTS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED ‘BAHASA INGGRIS X’

CASE STUDY IN TENTH GRADE STUDENTS

Abstract

This research focuses on analyzing the readability level of the selected reading texts in in English  textbook  entitled Bahasa  Inggris  X which  is  used  at  the  tenth  grade  students  of MA  Tanwirul  Qulub, Sungelebak, Karanggeneng, Lamongan by using cloze test. Meanwhile, there are nine reading texts in textbook and the writer chooses all nine texts to be analyzed because those nine texts include in three types of texts which are required by English curriculum for the  tenth grade of senior high school. The texts are descriptive, recount and narrative. The writer finds that there are three texts in fairly easy level and the score is 70 -79. They are My Idol, Issumboshi, The Legend of Malin Kundang. Then, there are three texts in fairly difficult level and the score is 50-59.  They  are Tanjung  Putting,  Taj  Mahal and Cut  Nyak  Dhien. Further,  there  are  three  texts  in  difficult level and the score is 30-49. They are Visiting Niagara, The Battle of Surabaya, and B.J. Habibie. Furthermore, the last four texts are include in frustrational level. They are descriptive text entitled Visiting Niagara (42,2 %), recount  text  entitled B.J.  Habibie (36,7  %),  recount  text  entitled Cut  Nyak  Dhien (40,5  %)  and  narrative  text  entitled Issumboshi (32,9  %).  These  texts  consist  of  many  deleted  words  so  the  students  were  confused to  fill them. In other word, these texts are difficult to read and understand by the students.Based on the result Flesch Reading Ease Formula, it can be concluded that only three texts are considered as readable texts.