AN ANALYSIS OF READABILITY LEVEL OF READING TEXTS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED “EXPERIENCING ENGLISH” FOR GRADE VIII JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PUBLISHED BY MASMEDIA

ABSTRACT AN ANALYSIS OF READABILITY LEVEL OF READING TEXTS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED “EXPERIENCING ENGLISH” FOR GRADE VIII JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PUBLISHED BY MASMEDIA BY: TEUKU SYAHLEFI 1611040227 Thesis entitled “An Analysis Of Readability Level Of Reading Texts In English Textbook Entitled “Experiencing English” For Grade VIII Junior High School Published By Masmedia”, in this research, it was found out that the students face some difficulties in comprehending some reading texts in the textbook. Based on the data, 30 students of eighth-grade only 11 (37%) got the score above criteria and 19 (63%) students got the score under criteria. Therefore, the researcher intended to find out the readability of the textbook. This research used descriptive qualitative analysis and for the data source Experiencing English textbook for Grade VIII Junior High School was used. This research collected the data by using two techniques called "identification and counting". Meanwhile, the instruments of this research were Flesch readability formula and Flesch Kincaid Grade level formula. Based on the result of Flesch Reading Ease Formula, from seven reading texts, 4 (57.14%) reading texts were easy for eighth grade students and 1 (14.28%) reading text was difficult for eight graders. There were only 2 reading texts (28.57%) suitable for eighth grade students. Meanwhile, the result of Flesch Kincaid Grade Level formula showed that there were 5 texts (71.42%) had low readability, 1 text (14.28%) had high readability for eighth grade students and there was only 1 (14.28%) reading text suitable for eighth grade students. Keywords: Reading Textbook, Readability, Reading Comprehensio