usually cannot define some vocabulary or wrong to define the vocabulary in the reading materials, it affects students’ reading assignment result become bad. In
addition, the teacher also said that they are not checked the readingmaterials in textbook yet, whether the reading materials are suitable for the students or not,
they just teach them following the textbook. For an example, the researcher takes one of reading text from English
textbook they learn randomly, the title is “Snowy Owls Large Prey Birds. After I analyzed, I found the result is 58, 76 of lexical item and grammatical item. It
means that this text is difficult to understand by the first grade student of Junior High Sch
ool. Regarding this measurement based on Ure’s method, if the numbers surprasses forty percent, it accounts for higher lexical density. While the result of
Measurement the Grammatical Inticacy of the last paragraph, the text actually has 7 clauses. The reason why researcher chooses the paragraph above it because
the paragraph actually does not have any simple clause. All of the sentences in that paragraph consist of 7 complex clauses. It shown that the paragraph is
grammatical intricate. Based on the preliminary observation, the researcher can say that when the
students get difficulty to understand the content of the textbook especially in the reading text, the students will be hard to get the knowledge of the textbook. The
proportion between the lexical items and the grammatical items in the text certainly will determine the difficulty of the text. Through the lexical density of
the text, teacher can know whether the text is easy or difficult for the students. The measurement of lexical density and grammatical intricacy in English
Reading Text is important because it will be the consideration of the teacher or
school to choose the avalaible book for the students in order to make the students learn the book easily.
B. The Problems of The Study
Based on the background of the study above, the problem of the study are formullated as the following:
1. What are the Lexical Density and Grammatical Intricacy used in
reading materials of English in Focus textbook for first grade junior high school?
2. How are the Lexical Density and Grammatical Intricacy formed in the
reading materials of English in Focus textbook for first grade of junior high school?
C. The Objective of The Study
Based on formulation of the research above, the objectives of this study are:
1. To find out the Lexical Density and Grammatical Intricacy in reading
materials based on the reading text of English in Focus textbook for first grade of junior high school..
2. To find out the Lexical Density and Grammatical Intricacy formed in
reading materials based on the reading text of English in Focus textbook for first grade of junior high school.
D. The Scope of The Study
In this research, the researcher was focuses on the subject matter in analyzing the lexical density and grammatical intricacy of the reading materials
in English in Focus textbook. The study is limitted to analyze the content of the reading texts in the first semester which consist of 8 texts in English in Focus
textbook.
E. The Significance of The Study
In conducting this study, the writer hopes that this research has benefit theoretically aand practically to the readers.
Theoretically, this research hopefully will be useful to enrich the lexical density and grammatical intricacy theories. The finding in this research can add
new information to other researcher aboout the lexical density and grammatical intricacy found in a textbook.
Practically, this research hopefully will be useful for the teachers as guidance to choose suitable textbook for the students and apply the result of this
study as feedback on their teaching learning process so that the students are better in reading skills. Last, all of the benefits of analyzing the lexical density and
grammatical intricacy hopefully will be useful for all educators because it will be affect students’ ability in learning english.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
After analyzing the data and elaborating the findings, the researcher can conclude that as the following:
1. Lexical density is formed by unification of lexical items and grammatical
items which measured to find out the difficulty level in a text. While grammatical intricacy is formed by unification of complex clauses and
simple clauses which measured to find how intricate the text is. Lexical density formed of the texts as follows; Text 1 was 57.31, Text 2 was
70.83, Text 3 was 68.75, Text 4 was 61.36, Text 5 was 58.82, Text 6 was 60.86, Text 7 was 69.23, Text 8 was 71.42. Grammatical
Intricacy formed of the texts as follows; Text 1 was 7, Text 2 was 4, Text 3 was 2.16, Text 4 was 2, Text 5 was 1.08, Text 6 was 1.75, Text 7 was 2,
Text 8 was 2. 2.
Regarding the research result which shows that all of the texts are have high lexical density and grammatical intricacy, the researcher can explain
that the reading materials found in English in Focus Textbook are difficult to understand by the students. Based on theories that the researcher use as
guidance, lexical density influences the difficulty of reading texts if it has higher proportion of lexical items than grammatical items. While
grammaticcal intricacy also influences the difficulty of reading texts if it
has higher proportion of complex clauses in comparison with simple clauses.
3. The length of the sentence did not influence the grammatical intricacy of
the texts but the more complex clauses and content carrying lexical items could make the reader difficult to process the texts.
B. Suggestion
Based on the conclusion to the findings pointed above, the following suggestions are needed to be considered in conducting the related research.
1. For the authors, they can use this study to present the next textbook in
balancing composition between content carrying lexical items and grammatical items of lexical density, complex clauses and simple clauses
of rammatical intricacy, in order to the students can understand about the reading texts.
2. For English teachers, they can apply the result of this study as feedback on
their teaching activities to choose the appropriate learning sources and to teach. It used to fulfill the aim, the ability level of the students and their
needs because each text had different level of lexical density and grammatical intricacy so it certainly has different teaching materials so
that the students fell attracted to study. 3.
For the students, the result of this study can be helpful for them to comprehend the content of the textbook in the reading texts and get the
knowledge of the textbook by understanding the complex clauses and content carrying lexical items of texts.
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