The Analysis of Reading Assessment Types and Genres in Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students XI.

In measuring the understanding of the students with the material that have been taught, the teachers give some assessments for the students. The assessment itself given depends on each skill. The assessment can be done by asking the students to do the tasks in textbook or exercises created by the teachers. The assesments in the textbook as follows are needed in developing students’ ability. The objectives of this study are: (1) to find out the types of reading assessment tasks in Interlanguage Textbook for Senior High School Students XI, (2) to find out the genres of reading assessment tasks in Interlanguage Textbook for Senior High School Students XI. The design of the research is descriptive qualitative. The data of this research is reading assessment tasks and the data source is Interlanguage Textbook for Senior High School Students XI published by Pusat Perbukuan Departemen Pendidikan Nasional and copied by PT. Macanan Jaya Cemerlang, Klaten, in 2008. In analyzing the data, the researcher determines the types of reading assessment tasks and the genres of reading assessment tasks. Then calculate the total of types and genres found in Interlanguage Textbook for Senior School Students XI. The result shows that the types of reading assessment tasks are perceptive reading, selective reading, interactive reading, and extensive reading. The most dominant type is extensive reading. Although extensive reading for advance students, the researcher also found that the difficulties of the tasks still in intermediate level, the same with the level of Senior High School Students. This reasearch also shows that the genres in reading assessment tasks are academic reading, job related reading, and personal reading. The most dominant genre is academic reading. It shows that Senior High School involve a lot of reading or studying rather than practical skills, the same with the purpose of the school itself. Based on the research result, the researcher suggests to the students in English Department should be able to design the good assessment, the English teachers must understand the content of the textbook, and the authors must be carefull in writing the textbook