LEXICAL DENSITY ANALYSIS OF READING TEXT IN BAHASA INGGRIS TEXTBOOK FOR GRADE XI SMAN 2 TEBING TINGGI

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dibasari Putri And Yeni Arlita
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Orange Juice ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Density Level ◽  
Experiential Mode ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Density Analysis ◽  
Lexical Density ◽  
Reading Texts

This study deals with the lexical density of reading text of English textbook for senior high school. It was aimed to find out lexical density level in the reading text,how is the lexical density distributed across the texts and then why is the lexical density used in the textbook. This study was conducted by using qualitative research.The data of study were the 8 texts that classified by 4 genres in the Bahasa Inggris textbook for grade XI SMAN 2 Tebing Tingi. The data were analyzed by using Eggins (2004) theory. The result of this study: 1) The LD level of text was equal based on Eggins theory. 2) The distribution of lexical density in reading text in Bahasa Inggris textbook as follows: Text 1 entitle “ How to Make Orange Juice” was 0.37. Text 2 entitle “ How to plant Jasmine “ was 0.46. Text 3 entitle “ How to Make Cheese Toast” was 0.37. Text 4 entitle “ How to Make a Pizza” was 0.44. Text 5 entitle “ Earthquakes “ was 0.46. Text 6 entitle “ The Last “ was 0.32. Text 7 entitle "Life and Times of Ki Hajar Dewantara” was 0.38. Text 8 entitle“ Global Warming” was 0.47. 3) Although the reading texts in the bahasa inggris textbook had different genre in each texts but it didn’t influence lexical density of the text because the influencing of the high and low lexical density in the texts were the three points of experiential mode namely action, reconstraction and generalization.

scholarly journals The Lexical Density of Erlangga’s “English On Sky” Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Gagang Ramadhan ◽  
Asih Santihastuti ◽  
Eka Wahjuningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
School Based ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Lexical Density ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative ◽  
Reading Texts

The aims of this research were to know whether the reading texts found in “English On Sky” textbook  for 8th Grade of Junior High School were appropriate and meet the content of the curriculum or not by analyzing the lexical density of its texts and identifying the type of reading text which should be given based on the KTSP curriculum. The research design used was descriptive qualitative research. The instrument of this research was document which was get from collecting the reading texts found in the textbook. The data in this study was analyzed quantitatively in the form of description and used descriptive statistics for describing the features of data. The result of this result was there was no reading text in the textbook that was categorized as high lexical density. The readi ng texts were categorized as low and moderate lexical density as there were 12 reading texts were categorized as low lexical density and 12 reading texts were categorized as moderate lexical density. 12 reading text that categorized as low lexical density had 40% - 50% lexical density percentage. On the contrary 12 reading texts that categorized as moderate lexical density had 50% - 60% lexical density percentage. The highest percentage of the lexical density reading text found in the textbook was 57.72% entitled “Camping”. Meanwhile, the lowest percentage of the lexical density reading text was 41.61% entitled “None of your business!”. Based on the analysis, the genre found in this textbook were descriptive, recount, and narrative. In conclusion, this textbook were easy enough to understand for student and met the content of school-based curriculum.   Keywords: Descriptive Qualitative Research, Discourse Analysis, Lexical Density, Reading Text  

scholarly journals The Vocabulary Profile of UN (Ujian Nasional) Reading Texts of Senior High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Andila Atmadja
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
English Text ◽  
Coverage Level ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
General Service ◽  
Reading Texts

ABSTRACTThis the study was aimed at investigating vocabulary profile of English UN 2015 Reading Texts for Senior High School. Content analysis was used as a research method. The data were vocabularies which encountered within 14 reading texts. The instruments were Lewis (1997) divisions of lexical items adapted in Lakshmi (2012) and 1000-3000 new general service list by Browne and Coxhead (2013) within Vocab Profiler software inventing by Cobb (2009).The result showedthat(1) There were four lexical items encountered in the UN 2015 Reading Text. They were: polywords, collocation, a fixed expression, and semi-fixed expression. (2) The most dominant of lexical items were encountered in the Reading Text is collocation with 145 words (60%), Polywords with 51 words (21%), Semi fixed expression with 38 words (16%) and the lowest was fixed expression with 7 words (3%). (3) There were 1067 words (88%) in the UN reading text were the extent of coverage level 1000-3000 NGSL and NAWL level by Browne and Coxhead. The conclusion was the teacher should teach the students about collocation and other word partnership in order to assist students to comprehend the English text better.

scholarly journals TEXT COMPLEXITY IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhani Aldila Putra ◽  
Iwa Lukmana
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Text Complexity ◽  
Lexical Variation ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Lexical Density ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
Reading Texts

Textbooks have been considered to play a key role in the processes of education by researchers and educators, and the need to explore the language of textbooks has become increasingly recognized. However, although textbooks are an important learning tool, textbook language and composition have not been widely explored especially from textual perspectives. The purpose of the present study is to investigate text complexity progression in the reading texts of English textbooks published for senior high school students in Indonesia. The nature and rate of that progression are addressed within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Being largely qualitative, this study examines three consecutive textbooks issued by the Ministry of Education, which are available online for classroom use. Data were collected and sampled from the reading texts found in the textbooks and were analyzed with regard to lexical density, lexical variation and grammatical intricacy in order to find the complexity of the texts. The results of the analyses show that regardless of the inconsistent progression of text complexity within each textbook, there is a consistent pattern of text complexity progression across grade levels. In other words, the lexical density, lexical variation and grammatical intricacy across the textbooks were found to have consistent progression from one grade level to another of which the direction is positive. It could be concluded that in general the language used in the texts becomes increasingly sophisticated, especially at lexical level, in accordance with grade level progression to cater for students’ intellectual development.

scholarly journals CHARACTER BUILDING OF ALTRUISM IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Elsa Ernawati Nainggolan ◽  
Juliatri Goretti Simamora
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Environmental Care ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
Pro Social Behavior ◽  
And Task

This study aimed at analyzing altruism character in the three English textbooks of senior high school grade X, XI, and XII. Using content analysis, words, phrases, and clauses presenting altruism in the reading text, dialogue, and tasks were examined. The study revealed that in the English textbook of grade X, the altruism aspect indicating ‘pro-social behavior’ and ‘environmental care’ could be frequently found in reading text, dialogue, and task. However, other altruism aspects such ‘giving empathy’ missed in the reading text and ‘reducing inequality’ does not appear in the reading text and dialogue. Meanwhile in the grade XI, ‘giving empathy’ and ‘pro-social behavior’ occur in dialogue and task yet cannot be identified in the reading text. Moreover, ‘environmental care’ only shows up in dialogue and task, while ‘reducing inequality’ is nowhere to be found. In the grade XII, ‘giving empathy’, ‘pro-social behavior’ and ‘environmental care’ could be identified in the reading text, dialogue, and task. Unfortunately, ‘reducing inequality’ aspects only occur in the task. The inconsistent altruism character maintained in the English textbooks used in grade X, XI, and XII of senior high school displayed the missing opportunity to shape students’ altruistic behavior. Considering that senior high school is the stage where students start developing the ability to think logically about abstract ideas, altruism character should be inculcated in the development of English learning material in relevance to students’ intellectual and emotional level.

THE CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT OF READINGMATERIALS IN ENGLISH ALIVE TEXTBOOK BASED ON SYLLABUS INDICATORS OF KTSP FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syarifah Fitriani And Masitowarni Siregar
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Generic Structures ◽  
English Subject

The Objective of this study was to describe clearly about the conformityAssessment of reading materials in English Alive textbook for eleventh gradestudents of Senior High School with the requirements in the school-basedcurriculum (KTSP). The research method was document analysis. The data weregathered from English Alive textbook and the syllabus of English subject for theeleventh grade students of Senior High School. After obtaining the data, theresearcher analyzed the data from the reading material contents in the textbookwith the requirements specified in the KTSP by calculating the score of the datafrom the analysis. The findings of this research state that 85.7% of text types inthe textbook meet the text types specified in the KTSP, 93,7% of the readingindicators meet the indicators specified in the KTSP,100% of generic structuresmeet the requirements specified in the KTSP. The total score for the all of aspectsin reading material are 93,2%. It shows very good as the criteria of conformitylevel. Based on the results,the reading indicators, reading text types, and featuresof reading text types (generic structures) in English Alive textbook are alreadydeveloped in accordance with the requirements specified in the School-BasedCurriculum (KTSP).

READABILITY IN TALK ACTIVE 2 TEXTBOOK FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hera Fitra Lubis And Anggraini Thesisia Saragih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Emperor Penguin ◽  
Flesch Reading Ease ◽  
The Third ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
Instructional Level ◽  
Cloze Test ◽  
Reading Texts

This research aimed to analyze and describe the readability of reading texts in atextbook entitled Talk Active 2 for the Eleventh Grade Senior High School. Thisresearch concerned on measuring six reading texts in the textbook which wereselected by using random sampling. The measurements used in this research wereFlesch Reading Ease Formula and Cloze Test. The test was distributed to the 40eleventh grade students at SMA Swasta Galih Agung. Furthermore, the writerused descriptive method. From the analysis by using Flesch Reading EaseFormula, it was found that 3 of 6 texts are readable for the eleventh gradestudents. The three texts are the third text Emperor Penguin (57.06), fifth textShould Parents Censor Their Children’s Reading Material? (63.59) and sixth textDewi Sartika (53.47). But, only the third text and sixth text are appropriate for theeleventh grade students because the scores are between 50 to 60 (Fairly Difficult)which estimated for 10th-12th grade. The average readability score of the six textsby using Flesch Reading Ease Formula is 51.35 (Fairly Difficult) which isappropriate for 10th-12th grade. Moreover, the results by using cloze test showedthat text 6 has score 78.80% (Independent Level) which is predicted to be quiteeasy and the students can read the text independently. Meanwhile, text 1 to 5 havescore between 40% to 60% (Instructional Level). The average score of six texts is59.7% (Instructional Level) which predicted to be appropriate difficulty and it canbe concluded that the reading texts are appropriate for the eleventh grade studentsand the students need teacher’s assistance to comprehend the texts.

LEXICAL DENSITY OF READING TEXTS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desi Ariska And Isli Iriani Indiah Pane
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Lexical Density ◽  
Ninth Grade Students ◽  
Report Text ◽  
Reading Texts

This study deals with lexical density of English reading texts in the textbook of junior high school. The objectives of the study are to find out the lexical density of reading texts of English in Focus textbook, the text which has the highest lexical density in the reading texts, and the reason of the text which has the highest lexical density in reading texts. This study was conducted by descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research were the English reading texts of English in Focus textbook for ninth grade students of junior high school published by National Education Department. The result of the analysis showed that: (1) The lexical density of procedure texts are 5.90, 5.08, 5.5, and 4.69, report texts are 5.92, 4.22, 4.06, and 3.64 and narration texts are 2.92 and 2.90. The score showed that the lexical density of eleven reading texts on English in Focus textbook for ninth grade of junior high school is categorized medium based on the Halliday’s theory. It means that the texts are not difficult, easy to understand and suitable for ninth grade students of junior high school. (2) The highest lexical density of the reading texts is report text entitled “The Chinese Influence in Indonesian Visual Art” (5.92) because of the higher number of lexical items than grammatical items, few clauses and more vocabularies of words. (3) Report text has the highest lexical density because of the high proportion of lexical items in the text and it also because of the generic structure, language features and the style of writing report text.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF READABILITY LEVEL OF READING MATERIAL IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR FIRST GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dzulhijjah Yetti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Flesch Reading Ease ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Readability Level ◽  
Reading Texts

Predicting readability level of reading texts can help the teachers to match the texts with student’s grade. The appropriate reading text is expected to ease the students in comprehending the material. This research focused on the readability level of English reading material found in English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for first grade of Senior High School Published by Curriculum and Books Center, Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Education and Culture. This study attempts to find out whether the reading materials are appropriate or not in terms of readability level for the target students. This research used descriptive quantitative design. The object of the research is English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for First Grade of Senior High School published by Curriculum 2013. The textbook consists fifteen chapters which contained kinds of reading materials such as dialogue and reading texts. The researcher only focuses on analyzing the reading materials. There are three kinds of genre found in this book, they are descriptive, recount and narrative. The data were collected by using document analysis. In calculating readability level, the researcher employed the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formula. The results of the study showed that there were 9 reading texts in the Bahasa Inggris textbook. From those 9 texts found that there were 3 descriptive texts, 4 recount texts, and 2 narrative texts. According to the analysis using Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formula, the researcher found that there were 3 texts in Fairly Easy level, 3 texts in Fairly Difficult level, and 3 texts in Difficult level. In average, the texts are in Fairly Difficult level (57,3). Based on the theory of Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formula, it is found that the texts are in the appropriate level for tenth grade students.Keyword: Readability level, Reading Material, Textbook.

scholarly journals Profile of Students’ Creative Thinking Skills on Global Warming Material: Gender Perspective in Physics Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 2110 (1) ◽  
pp. 012028
Author(s):  
D Wulandari ◽  
E Hariyono ◽  
N Suprapto ◽  
H N Hidaayatullaah ◽  
B K Prahani
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Physics Learning ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Senior High School Students

Abstract Students need creative thinking skills, critical thinking, collaborative, and communicative in the 21st century in learning physics. In predicting further research, it is necessary to analyze the initial ability of students’ creative thinking skills. This study aims to analyze the profile of physics learning on the students’ creative thinking skill of high school students’ on global warming material and analyze the differences in students’ creative thinking abilities based on gender. Research method uses 100 samples of class eleventh grade in senior high school students’. Profiles of creative thinking skills of senior high school students’ on global warming were analyzed quantitatively descriptively. The results showed that the physics learning profile of students’ creative thinking skills on global warming material was relatively low, and there was a significant difference between the results of male and female students’ creative thinking skills. The results of this study can be used as empirical evidence that the creative thinking skills of high school students’ physics learning on global warming material still need to be improved. Further research is needed to overcome the low creative thinking skills of high school students’.

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