The English Textbook Readability of The Eleventh Grade Students

Abstract

Siti Aisyah Rakhmadani Nasution. 1302050275. “The English Textbook Readability Of The Eleventh Grade Students”. Skripsi: English Education Program of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara. Medan 2017. The objectives of this research were to find out whether the English reading texts were appropriate or not in terms of the readability level for the XI grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 6 Medan. This research was focused on the readability level of English reading texts for grade XI students of SMK Muhammadiyah 6 Medan of the academic year 2016/2017. This research was categorized as descriptive quantitative qualitative research. The source of the research was five reading texts from an English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris published by Yudhistira to be tested to 30 students as the research sample. The source research itself was taken by using total sampling technique. The instruments of the research were Flesch Kincaid Grade. The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Formula, the researcher counted the words, syllables, sentences, the average number of words per sentence and the average number of syllables per words of each reading text to determine the level of readability of the English texts on the students’ textbook. The results of the research average, the text were in Fairly Easy (7.83). It was found that according to the theory of Flesch Kincaid Readability, the text were not appropiate level for XI grade students.