THE READABILITY OF READING MATERIALS IN THE "PENUNTUN PELA.IARAN BAHASA INGGRIS BERDASARKAN KURIKULUM 1984"

THE READABILITY OF READING MATERIALS
IN THE "PENUNTUN PELA.IARAN BAHASA INGGRIS
BERDASARKAN KURIKULUM 1984"
A THESIS
In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for
the Sarjana Pendiidikan Degree in
'
English Langu;1ge Teaching

C.iliaraa U9ivorao
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KOI'i Kl::

Universitas Katolik Wklya Mandala Surabaya
Fakultas Keguruan dan llmu Pendidiklln
Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Seni
Program Studi Pendiidikan Bahasa lnggris
November. 1988

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has

been approved and accepted as partial fulfillment

the requirements for Sarjana Pendidikan degre e in
L,:;~.nguiqe

Teaching by the

fol'·~inq

of

English

adv i sot-s.

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?V .: ·~

rtolomeus Budiyono
Second Adv i sot-

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thesis has been examined by the committee

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Drs.

Drs.

Ignatius Harjanto

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by

Dear·! ci·f

Heaci of

th e Te ac her Training College

the English Department

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This

thesis

fulfillment

Pendidikan

of

must

the

submitted

requirements

Fakultas
Pendidikan

Pendidikan

Bahasa

Keguruan

Bahasa
Inggris,

a

partial

the

Sarjana
Jenjang

teaching~

dan

dan

as

for

Degree in English language

Program
Jurusan

be

Ilmu

Seni,

Universitas

Pendidikan,

Program

Studi

Katolik

Widya

Mandala, Surabaya.
The
first,

and

preparation
invaluable

would like to express

foremost,
who

Ngadiman,

time

writer

of

to

her

patiently
this

advi s or,

guided

thesis,

her

and

Drs.

her

Agustinus

during

especially

advice of encouragement and

gratitude,

for

understanding

of difficulties that enables her to accomplish

the
his
in
this

thesis into its present shape.
She

is

very

much indebted

to

Drs.

Bartolomeus

Budiyono, her co-reader, for his constant guidance in this
thesis.
She would like to express her deep apprec i ation and
gratitude

to

Drs.

Damat iu s

Wag i man,

MA.

for

hi s

contribution in fini sh ing her study.
Finally,
of
has

S MA

YPPI - I

welcomed

she

is also grateful

Surabaya,
and

allowed

iv

Dra.
the

to

Yuswanti
writer

the

principal

Hartanto,
to

carry

who
out

the

research

SMA

YPPI-I

at

her school, and

Surabaya

who

have

all
helped

the
the

teachers

of

writer

in

co nducting this research.

Liliana Wiyono

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i ' ici::t
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competer1ce and e~< p\~t
- ience wi 11
determine the
student's achievement in
the reading class.
If
the
materials are within the student's range of competence and
experience,
he will experience a sense of achievement in
reading.
Thus~
his desire ·for readinq
will
increase
gradually,
and
surely his ability to read
will
also
d.::::ve 1 op.
The evidence leads the writer to investigate the
readability of
the reading materials being used
there.
Some experts classify its components into some,
but the
major components that greatly influence the readability of
readinq materials can be classified into five: vocabulry~
struce~
background knowledge, personal inters~
and
j_J.l Lt'::;,t.l-a tions.
These compn~:!
ts intertwine with
one
another;
the absence of the requirement of only one
component has already influenced the readability of
the
m.:~ter·ials
for- the intended n~'aders
In
conducting this resach~
the writer uses the
dc~sr
.. .iptive study v~hic
is called "a case study" ~itl'1
the
·f .i l"st. '/ear students of SI"1A ·ypt=·r·-I as the subject of
the
study.
Tht-:~
resear-ch was condt.1cted in April
during
the
school year of 1987-1988.
There are some readability formulas suggested
by
the experts for measuring t,e readability of
reading
materials.
However,
for
a p~actil
purpose,
a
model
instrument
is given
in
this paper by using
cloze
procedures and a questionnaire.
The result of
this study is
that the reading
materials indicate moderate level of readability in
term
of vocabulary and structures, sufficient level in term of
background knowledge and personal inters~
and low
level
in
term of illustrations. The~for,
the writer conclude
that.
the r·eatlirHJ mat&?rials .i-,
the
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