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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION
A. Data Description
In this chapter, the writer will explain about the process of getting the data up to the way to get the result from data. This research, as written in the title of the chapter,
is a comparative research. Therefore, there will be two data compared by the researcher in order to find out the differences between those data.
This research is created in order to find out the comparison of the level of readability of English texts in National Examination or UN in academic year
20102011 and 20112012. The reasons of why the writer chooses those years have been explained in chapter one. In analyzing the data the writer takes 18 examples
from both years, 9 texts per each. Generally in this chapter the writer will explain:
a. The first part is the description of the data, the writer will explain about the
data taken from UN academic years 20102011 and 20112012, the condition of the 18 texts that are used as the objects of the research.
b. The second part is the way of the data processing. In processing the data, the
writer uses the Flesch Reading Ease formula. This part will show the readability of the data.
c. The last part is the result of the data and the comparison between the data.
Table 4.1 Texts 20102011
From Table 4.1 there are several information the writer wants to explain. In total 9 texts, the writer have chosen from English test in UN 20102011, the writer found :
- Text number 1 has the fewest word with 38 words
- Text number 6 has the most words with 330 words
- Text number 1 has the fewest sentences only 3 sentences
- Text number 9 has the most sentences, 23 sentences
- The average of the words from all texts is 174.1
- The average of the sentences is 10.3
Texts Words
Sentences 1
38 3
2 67
5 3
87 5
4 222
13 5
198 13
6 330
15 7
165 5
8 187
11 9
273 23
Average 174.1
10.3
Table 4.2 Texts 20112012
Table 4.2 provides several information. In total 9 texts, the writer have chosen from English test in UN 20112012, the writer found :
- Text number 3 has the fewest word with 61 words
- Text number 4 has the most words with 277 words
- Text number 1 has the fewest sentences only 4 sentences
- Text number 9 has the most sentences, 14 sentences
- The average of the words from all texts is 165.4
- The average of the sentences is 8.56
Texts Words
Sentences 1
65 4
2 104
6 3
61 5
4 277
14 5
158 6
6 183
8 7
169 8
8 250
13 9
222 13
Average 165.4
8.56
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