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From the result the researcher concluded that most of the students could create an essay on the fairly difficult level of readability. 45 2. An Analysis of the Readability of Educational Material on the Consumer Webpage of a Health Professional Organization: Considerations for Practice This research was conducted by Nadia Falconer and friends. In doing the research the researcher used 14 educational brochures on the APTA. All brochures ’ readability level was checked by Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Flesch Reading Ease, Fry Readability Formula, SMOG, and Checklist for patient and consumer. The result found that most of the brochures’ readability were still inappropriate for the consumer and need to be improved. 46 3. Readability of Language Textbooks Prescribed for Junior Secondary Schools and Students Performance in Reading Comprehension in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The researcher of this research is Bertola Perekeme. The total population of this research was 1500 students and the sample was 620 students from ten secondary schools. In analyzing the data the researcher used Fry Readability Formula and Cloze-Reading Test. The result from the research found that from both instruments that the readability level of the texts from the textbook was in the frustration level. 47 Therefore, from the three previous studies the writer found that in order to find out the readability level most of the writers above were using Flesch’s Reading Ease 45 William Kodom Gyasi., An Analysis of the Readability of the Essays of First Year Students of Ghanaian Universities. Journal Language in India Volume 11 : 8 August 2011. 46 Nadia Falconer, et al., An Analysis of the Readability of Educational Material on the Consumer Webpage of a Health Professional Organization: Considerations for Practice. Journal IJAHSP Vol. 9 No. 3 ISSN 1540-580X. 47 Bertola Perekeme., Readability of Language Textbooks Prescribed for Junior Secondary Schools and Students Performance in Reading Comprehension in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. British Journal of Arts and Social Sciences Vol. 9 No. 1. 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.