Assessing Reading Text in English Textbook for Eleventh Grader Published by Ministry of Education and Culture

Sangia, Rohib Adrianto

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“…Those formulae are indicated as the readability formulae which are appropriate and relevant to be applied for EFL reading materials whose first language is not English. Formulated readability that has been verified by (Sangia, 2015) used two different readability formulae which are Miyazaki EFL Readability Index and McAlpine EFLAW have been calculated and found the certain result. However, it still needs further investigation by investigating the verified readability in the real condition based on classroom practice.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Readability in classroom practice as the main focus of this current study begun with the document analysis by using field note which is gotten from the previous study, it was conducted by (Sangia, 2015)…”

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“…They showed that readability formula has a good result in calculating the readability of the reading passages in different textbook that published by the Company of Iran as learning materials for Pre-University Students in order to support teaching and learning process runs well (Tabatabei and Bagheri, 2013). Not only useful for Pre-University reading passages, it is also useful to be used for calculating readability of reading passages of students' high school reading materials in both of official from the government and the commercial one of tenth graders (Rahmawati and Lestari, 2014), or any other document which is used for high school students (Jones et al, 2000), even for eleventh graders (Sangia, 2015), or the popular one that can be gotten from any bookstores (Amaniy, 2014). Those studies has been conducted above imply that readability formula is a kind of tool that can effectively measure readability of the reading passages and become one of applicable solutions for analyzing the readability of the textbook as the important component that should be concerned.…”

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“…Pertaining from those studies to the main purpose of this current study and the previous investigation mentioned above, this current study assumes that there are some gaps among them. This current study focus on the readability in classroom practice, that investigate the readability of the reading materials of report text of eleventh graders based on the readability analysis that was conducted by (Sangia, 2015) to be observed in the real condition, in order to find the appropriateness of the readability result analysis and the real condition of the readability of report text as reading material for eleventh graders.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Readability in Classroom Practice of Report Text as Reading Material of Eleventh Graders

Yunita

Suharsono

Munir

2017

JELL

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This study is aimed to explain the readability of report text taken from “Bahasa Inggris Kelas 11” published by Kementrian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan based on readability formula evaluated by expert, in classroom practice and to know whether the readability of report text in classroom practice correspond with the readability of report text evaluated by expert. This study was a qualitative research. The data gained from observation, interview and documentation. The research subject was the students of eleventh grader of SMA Al – Islam Krian. To analyse the data, the researcher used three stages that proposed by Ary et al. (2010:220), they are, 1) organizing and familiarizing, 2) coding and reducing and 3) interpreting and presenting. There are some findings were obtained for this study. The first finding of this study shows that the readability of report text evaluated by expert was in the difficult level for eleventh graders. Second finding shows students enjoyed the material as well. They could understand the material easily and find the six components of reading as has been stated by Marshall (1979) appropriately. For the last finding, it could be seen that no one of the students got under the minimum score from the Minimum learning Standard. In conclusion, readability of report text that had been conducted by expert was not in correspondence with readability of report text in the classroom practice. Since readability of the text did not only depend on the length of the letters, words and sentences only because the role of the readers was also important to be considered. It was supported by (Armbruster et al., 1985); Fulcher (1997). They stated that the formulas

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Section: The Fog -Index Formulamentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Readability Of Report Text Taken From "Bahasa Inggris Kelas mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Readability in Classroom Practice of Report Text as Reading Material of Eleventh Graders

Yunita

Suharsono

Munir

2017

JELL

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“…Miyazaki readability formula has been used by several researchers in Indonesia to analyze the readability of textbooks. One of the studies was done by Sangia (2015).His research aimed to solve the problems related to the reading text material in EnglishTextbook for Eleventh Grader published by Ministry of Education and Culture based on theory of good reading text (Nuttall, 2005) He found that the overall reading texts by using Miyazaki EFL Readability, the readability level is fairly difficult, and it is good for eleventh grade.…”

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confidence: 99%

Textbook Readibility Assessment of K13 English Textbook For Twelfth Grade

Perwira

2019

IJET

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English textbook for twelfth grade of SMA which is published by Ministry of Education and Culture is a compulsory textbook which is based on national curriculum 2013 to support education in Indonesia. This study aims to investigate the readability level of the English textbook. It uses descriptive quantitative method to examine the readability of this book. The data are in the form of texts derives from transactional and interpersonal text, short functional text, reading text, instructional text inside the book. There are 180 data taken from those four texts. They are analyzed by using Miyazaki EFL readability formulae as a tool to measure the readability level whether it is suitable or not for twelfth grade students. According to Miyazaki EFL readability test, the easiest text from the book is in 5th grade and the hardest one is in post-school/university grade. But the most frequent grade appear in this book is in 8th and 9th grade which is 77 data (texts). The average of this book score is 63.2 which means it is suitable for 8th and 9th grade. This book is too easy for twelfth grade according to Miyazaki EFL readability test.

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The Readability Level of Reading Texts in Erlangga Straight Point Series: English for Eleventh Grade Students

Handayani

Furaidah

Ivone

2021

Jur.Pend.Teo.Pen.Peng.

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Abstract: This study aims to describe the readability level of reading texts in ESPS: English for the 11th grade students. The measurement tools were Coh-Metrix RDL2, Miyazaki EFL Reading Index and teachers’ professional judgment. The formula were effective in measuring the texts readability by calculating the number of words, letters, and sentences in the text. The Score of Coh-Metrix RDL2 showed that the reading texts was easier for reading level of 11th graders. MEFLRI claimed that reading texts in ESPS textbook are match for reading level of 11th graders. Teachers’ judgment claimed, the texts were suitable for eleventh grade students.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan tingkat keterbacaan 19 teks bacaan dalam ESPS: English untuk siswa kelas 11. Tiga alat ukur digunakan untuk mengukur tingkat keterbacaan yakni Coh-Metrix RDL2 dan Miyazaki EFL Reading Index, dan penilaian guru. Kedua formula terbukti efektif dalam mengukur keterbacaan teks dengan menghitung total huruf, kata, dan kalimat dalam teks. Coh-Metrix menunjukkan bahwa teks bacaan lebih mudah dipahami oleh siswa pada kelas 11, sedangkan MEFLRI menunjukkan bahwa teks bacaan sangat cocok diberikan pada kelas 11. Penilaian guru menyatakan teks bacaan sesuai untuk siswa kelas 11.

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Assessing Reading Text in English Textbook for Eleventh Grader Published by Ministry of Education and Culture

Cited by 4 publications

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Readability in Classroom Practice of Report Text as Reading Material of Eleventh Graders

Readability in Classroom Practice of Report Text as Reading Material of Eleventh Graders

Textbook Readibility Assessment of K13 English Textbook For Twelfth Grade

The Readability Level of Reading Texts in Erlangga Straight Point Series: English for Eleventh Grade Students

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