THE ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL DENSITY AND TEXT TYPES ON INDONESIAN SECONDARY EFL TEXTBOOK

Abstract

This study dealt with the analysis of Lexical Density and Text Types on Indonesian Secondary EFL Textbook. The objectives of this study is the textbook Junior High School. As the data, descriptive qualitative method was used in this study. I found 16 texts in the textbook for the ninth grade junior high school students. 5 texts are categorized as lower lexical density, 8 texts are categorized as moderate lexical density and 3 texts is labeled as higher lexical density. It means that the majority of the texts in the textbook are quite difficult to be understood by the students. The highest percentage of lexical density is 62,9%. It is “Fabric” and "Tax" which is categorized as descriptive text. This "Fabric" is which has 39 content words, 14 grammatical function words and the total of words is 62. meanwhile "Tax" is the text which has 73 content word and 23 grammatical word and a total of 116 words. On the opposite, the lowest percentage of lexical density is 23,2%. The text entitled “Family” is categorized as Descriptive text. it has 30 content words, 32 grammatical function words and the total number of the words is 129. Furthermore, it can be concluded that the high number of the words did not mean that the texts had high lexical density and the low number of the words was not the reason to classify the text as the low lexical density. The total number of words did not determine how appropriate the text was based on the lexical density analysis. Thus, commonly the reading texts found in textbook for the ninth grade junior high school students were in moderate percentage of lexical density. It means that the textbook are appropriate for the students to exercise the students‟ English skill especially reading.