Assessing The Readability of Intensive English Course Textbooks I, II, III for The English Department Students of State University of Semarang (UNNES)  

Oleh:

Bharati, Dwi Anggani Linggar

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 3, page 24-27.
Topik: Readability; textbook; Intensive English Course.
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This study attemps to assess the readibility of the Intensive English Course Textbook I, II, and III used by the English department students of Unnes. The problems to be studied are:1) to what extent is the readability of the Intensive English Course textbooks? 2) is there any significant difference ofthe readability among the Intensive English Course textbooks ? It employed descriptive quantitative evaluative research design; one hundred (100) students in semester I were taken randomly as the samples of this study; while the instruments used for collecting the data were cloze test, questionaire and observation. The results of the research showed that the readability mean scores of the three textbooks were at the frustration level 24.37 for Textbook 1 and at the instruction level 51.1 and 58.01 for Textbook II and III; and there is no significant difference among the readibility of textbooks. It means that when the students read the texts, they were not able to comprehend the messages of the texts well. Therefore, when these textbooks are defended to be used as the main material for the teaching of Intensive Course, it is suggested to be revised so that they can fill the needs of the students.

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