Lexical Density of Reading Materials in the “Passport to the World English Textbook for 8 th Grade of Junior High School Based on Curriculum 2013

MAUFIROH, YUNI LAILATUL (2022) Lexical Density of Reading Materials in the “Passport to the World English Textbook for 8 th Grade of Junior High School Based on Curriculum 2013. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

One of the materials that should be represented in English textbooks is reading. In the reading section, the students have to understand the content of the text to get the information from it. In fact, there were some factors faced by the students in understanding reading text. Many researchers found that lexical density is one of the factors that influenced students in understanding reading text. Lexical density is a condition of words’ proportion in a text which shows the ratio of content words (CW) and grammatical function words (GFW). The more content word of lexical density the more difficult the text is, and the lower the content word of lexical density the easier the text is. The researcher used “Passport to the World” English Textbook for 8 th Grade of Junior High School to be analyzed because the publisher of this textbook claims that fits with the current Curriculum 2013. There were two research questions in this research, those are: 1) What are the Genres of Reading Materials offered by Curriculum 2013 which are found in “Passport to the World” English Textbook for 8th Grade of Junior High School? and 2) How is the Lexical Density of Reading Materials in the “Passport to the World” English Textbook for 8 th Grade of Junior High School based on Curriculum 2013?. The objectives of this research are: 1) To find out genres of reading materials offered by Curriculum 2013 which are found in “Passport to the World” English Textbook for 8 th Grade of Junior High School and 2) To examine the lexical density from reading materials in the “Passport to the World” English Textbook for 8 th Grade of Junior High School based on Curriculum 2013. To answer those research questions, the researcher used qualitative as the approach. Content Analysis was used as the research design in analyzing reading material and lexical density of reading material in the textbook. Document analysis was used in collecting the data. The data of this research was 17 reading materials in the “Passport to the World” English Textbook for 8 th Grade of Junior High School published by Tiga Serangkai (Djatmika, Agus Dwi Priyanto, and Ida Kusuma Dewi), this textbook was published in 2019. In collecting the data, the researcher bought the textbook then read and reread the textbook repeatedly and carefully to find the important detail from all reading materials and separated the data that related to the research. The last step was analyzing all the data gotten from the textbook that were relevant to this research into analysis table. The findings of this research are: 1) This English textbook provided three genres of reading material that were descriptive text, recount text, and announcement. Descriptive texts were represented 11 times, recount texts were represented 4 times, and announcements were represented twice. Unfortunately,this textbook did not provide two genres that were also suggested by curriculum 2013, which were narrative text and procedure text. 2) Based on the finding, the researcher found 2 texts that were categorized as low lexical density, which means the text was easy to understand, 11 texts were categorized as medium lexical density, which means the text was quite easy to understand, and 4 texts were labeled as high lexical density, which means the text was difficult to understand. In addition, the composition of this text had not reached the ideal ratio 1:2:1 of index difficulty because the composition of reading text in the textbook was easy 11,76%, moderate 64,70%, and difficult 23,52%.

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