An analysis of readability level of reading texts in English Textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for Senior High School Students Grade XII

Reading is the ability to understand the words in a document. It means that reading is about understanding written texts. If reading English text is not interest, vocabularies are hard to understand, the students get difficult to understand the reading passage. Therefore, the readability level of text is needed to motivate students to be able to build up their interest in reading text. This research investigates the readability level of reading texts in English Textbook Entitled “Bahasa Inggris” for senior high school students grade XII. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative. The data were gathered through analysis the readability level of the texts used Flasch Reading Ease Formula. The finding results of this research show that there are 6 texts from 16 texts that is readable or suitable with Senior High School students grade xii. Those are categorizing as readability level range Score 50-60 and readability level range score 30-50. The description style of the text is fairly difficult and difficult.