Table 3.1 Texts 20102011
From the Table 3.1, there are several data known: -
The fewest words is from text 1 with 38 words -
The longest text is text 6 with 330 words -
Text 1 is text with the least sentences consist of 3 sentences -
Text 9 is text with the most sentences consist of 23 sentences 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
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Table 3.2 Texts 20112012
From the Table 3.2, there are several data known: -
The fewest words is from text 3 with 61 words -
The longest text is text 4 with 277 words -
Text 1 is text with the least sentences consist of 4 sentences -
Text 4 is text with the most sentences consist of 14 sentences
C. Data Collecting Technique
In order to collect all the data needed, the researcher types all the data into Microsoft Office Word 2007. The data were taken from book Persiapan Menghadapi
Ujian Nasional SMA-IPS 2014. The book is provided with four years test. Those tests are from academic years: 20092010, 20102011, 20112012, and 20122013.
Based on the text in English test 20102011 and 20112012, the researcher found that the fourteenth text from academic year 20112012 is unable to be used
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
D. Technique of Data Analysis
In analyzing the data there are several steps that the researcher has to do, those are:
1. Choosing texts from UN academic year 20102011 and 20112012
2. Testing the texts use Flesch’s Reading Ease formula
1
: Score= 206.853-1.015 X ASL
– 84.6 X ASW Description:
ASL = Average Sentence Length ASW = Average number of Syllables per Words
Because the Flesch’s Reading Ease formula has been integrated with
Microsoft Office Word 2010, therefore the researcher uses the Microsoft Office Word 2010 to test the level of text in term of the variety and condition
of text.
E. Timetable
The researcher formulates the timetable in order to make a better time organization. Based from researcher calculation, the research will take time as follow:
Table 3.3 Research Timetable
Progress Time
Collecting UN texts from UN’s test academic year 20102011 and 20112012
1 day Testing texts’ comprehendible level
4 days Comparing the data result
2 Days
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William H Dubay, The Principle of Readability, California: Impact Information, p. 22.
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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.
