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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE OF APPROVAL ..........................................................................................i
ABSTRACT .............................................................................................................ii
STATEMENT OF AUTHORIZATION ...............................................................iii
PREFACE ................................................................................................................iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................vii
LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................viii
LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................ix
CHAPTER I .............................................................................................................1
CHAPTER II ...........................................................................................................8
CHAPTER III .........................................................................................................23
CHAPTER IV ..........................................................................................................36
CHAPTER V ...........................................................................................................54
BIBLIOGRAPHY ...................................................................................................58
APPENDICES .........................................................................................................65

Wildan Hariz, 2015
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READABILITY LEVEL OF TEXT MATERIALS AND VOCATIONAL
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY IN EFL CLASSROOMS

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 3.1 Validity Level Interpretation .................................................................28
Table 3.2 Reliability Level Classification ...............................................................29
Table 3.3 Difficulty Index ........................................................................................30
Table 3.4 Discriminatory Power .............................................................................31
Table 3.5 Guide to Correlational Test ....................................................................32
Table 3.6 Correlation Coefficient Strength ...........................................................33
Table 4.1 Validity Test Result .................................................................................36
Table 4.2 Reliability Result .....................................................................................38
Table 4.3 KR-20 (Cronbach’s Alpha) Reliability Coefficient .............................38
Table 4.4 Difficulty Index Result ............................................................................39
Table 4.5 Discriminatory Power Result .................................................................40
Table 4.6 Test of Normality .....................................................................................41
Table 4.7 Saphiro-Wilk Table .................................................................................41
Table 4.8 Categories of Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability ...................44

Table 4.9 Descriptive Statistics of Reading Comprehension Test .......................45
Table 4.10 Text I.......................................................................................................46
Table 4.11 Text II .....................................................................................................46
Table 4.12 Text III ...................................................................................................46
Table 4.13 Descriptive Statistics of Readability Level of Text Materials ...........47
Table 4.14 Correlation between Both Variables ...................................................49

Wildan Hariz, 2015
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READABILITY LEVEL OF TEXT MATERIALS AND VOCATIONAL
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY IN EFL CLASSROOMS
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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1.1 Example of a Readability Formula ...........................................................10
Figure 4.1 Scatterplots of Readability Levels ............................................................42
Figure 4.2 Scatterplots of Reading Comprehension Scores .......................................43
Figure 4.3 Frequencies and Classification .................................................................44

Figure 4.4 Readability Levels of the Sample Texts ...................................................47
Figure 4.5 Hypotheses ................................................................................................50

Wildan Hariz, 2015
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READABILITY LEVEL OF TEXT MATERIALS AND VOCATIONAL
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY IN EFL CLASSROOMS
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