Formula. Their research also contributes to this research, such as the process of analyzing the data.
Kodom Gyasi’s research has a big contribution in this research. His research has given an explanation about how to analyze readability level of texts. In his research
he also gives an image about Flesch-Kinclaid Reading Ease, the formula used by the writer.
Not different with Gyasi’s, Falconer’s research about readability of educational brochures of APTA has contributes to the writer, especially in the understanding of
techniques in analyzing readability. Falconer’s also gives a good example about more techniques that can be used.
Perekeme’s research about readability has a good contribution to the writer. Even though the techniques used by Perekeme is Fry Readability and Cloze-Reading test,
but his research has given an inspiration to the writer in how to improve the writer’s research.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Method and Design
Based on the purpose of the research this research use Descriptive Analysis Method where the researcher tries to describe comparative data of readability level of
English text in UN academic year 20102011 and 20112012. On the other hand, based on how the researcher collects the data, this research uses Document Analysis.
In order to get the data needed the researcher uses The Flesch’s Reading Ease
Formula where the researcher uses reading tests from UN as the objects. Besides, the researcher also does library research from books, articles, journals, and some internet-
based data.
B. Data and Data Source
The researcher takes the data, in this case English texts, from UN test academic years 20102011 and 20112012. Based on the test, the researcher found that in year
20102011 there are nine texts in its reading section and in year 20112012 there are fourteen texts. It is concluded that there are twenty-three texts from both years.
After checking all the texts, the researcher found that the last text in year 20112012 cannot be used as the comparison data. The reason of why the 14
th
text is unable to be used is that the format of the text is filled in the blank text. Therefore,
the Flesch’s Reading Ease formula cannot be used on the text as the Flesch’s
Reading Ease formula only works to a complete text. As the conclusion, the population data from those years are reduced to twenty-two texts.
