| In Indonesia, English is still considered as a foreign language and has become a crucial subject of study especially in the university level. For this reason, ENGLISH FOR Academic Purposes has been conducted in the first year of college level for many years. Unfortunately, although many Asian countries including Indonesia have run the EAP course, the output is that there are still many Indonesian students who do not meet the vocabulary size that is expected while their learning process in the university. This results lower grades that they have in their assignments. Therefore, the recent study is aimed at evaluating the reading materials of EAP, especially in measuring the lexical richness and syntactic complexity containing in the texts as it is strongly believed in English learning that a good language output comes from a good language input. The data is taken from the collections of reading materials taken from EAP course Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 which are compulsory subjects for students at Sampoerna University in their first 2 years of study. The data then is processed using the Lexical Frequency Profile (Nation, 1995) and the Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (Lu, 2013). The findings showed that the reading materials of EAP course Level 3 text is mainly suggested to be reviewed and revised in order to fulfill the criteria of a good academic text according to Nation (2001) that the whole text should contain not more than 80% of general words, at least 10% academic words, and not more than 10% of technical or semi-technical words (p.17). Moreover, it should fulfill the five categories of syntactic complexity, i.e. the length of production unit, the sentence complexity, the subordination, the coordination, and the particular structure. |