48 AGO tells police to drop case against KPK leaders
10292009 House cancels hearing on hajj
10302009 Public support KPK deputy chairmen
10312009
All articles were sorted by its days from October 1-31. From the news content, all the articles selected contain Indonesian news. There were a lot of
Indonesian terms translated into English. The students will get a lot of advantages by reading these kinds of articles, of course which match their reading level. How
the writer did the calculation using the formula was described further in the next subsection.
2. Readability Computations Result
The built-in formula in MS Word 2007 was so convenient and uncomplicated to administer that there would be almost no mistakes in calculating
the readability level, for the computer has done it for the writer. That was why no human decoders were needed. Every single computation was done by the
computer software, MS Word 2007. After collecting all of the articles, the writer computed the readability of
each articles by MS Word 2007. Before the computation began, the writer had checked the grammar mistakes in an article using grammar and spell checker
which were also available in MS Word 2007. This operation must be done first because the computation of readability in MS Word 2007 was only possible to
apply if the grammar and spelling were already checked. After finished with checking spelling and grammar mistakes, the step
went on with computing the readability level. The computation of readability
49 automatically computed both type of readability formula, Flesch-Reading Ease
and Flesch-Kincaid Grade level. The sorted computed articles from the easiest to the most difficult one based on FKG level can be seen in the Table 4.2 below.
Table 4.2 The List of Readability Computation Results
Articles Date
Flesch Reading
Ease Flesch-
Kincaid Level
House inaugurate new legislators Hollywood-style
10022009 46.7
10.9 Slew of quakes hit archipelago,
cause minor panic in capital 10172009
47.1 11.1
Police kill two brother outlaws 10102009
48.6 11.2
Nobel Prize for Obama shows Indonesia the way forward
10132009 44.8
11.4 Quake-ruined schools turn
students away 10062009
47.6 11.4
Its batik party time in Jakarta 10032009
41.1 11.5
Jusuf Kalla says farewell to public office
10202009 42.7
12.1 House cancels hearing on haj
10302009 42.2
12.4 Microsoft introduces Windows
7, upbeat on sales 10232009
40.5 12.5
Minister Andi to revitalize scout movement
10282009 38.9
12.8 `New evidence in KPK bribery
case must be checked first 10262009
41.2 13.1
A post-ASEAN foreign policy for a post-G8 world
10052009 36.1
13.3 Public support KPK deputy
chairmen 10312009
38.2 13.5
AGO tells police to drop case against KPK leaders
10292009 32.9
14 TNI \business takeover `merely
a formality 10152009
25.5 14.3
Voice records reveal ‘plot to frame’ KPK deputies
10272009 30.9
14.6 Many cases under Susno
dropped 10142009
29.2 14.7
PDI-P in dilemma over position 10222009
36.3 14.7
