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Abstract
This research seeks to study the quality of Curriculum – 13 (K13) English textbook provided by the Government of Indonesia. This will use the senior year of high school’s textbook due to its emphasis on reading aspect. In order to assess the quality of K13 English textbook, in-depth analysis on selected reading texts will be performed by measuring their lexical density using the Castello (2008) refers to the former way as the method of calculating, which is Ure (1971) and Halliday (1985). The analysis also attempts to shed the light regarding the readability of reading texts provided in the textbook. It is important as the basis to decide whether the K13 English textbook assessed has met the aspired quality in terms of content and suitable teaching strategy to handle difficulties of the reading materials within the book. The finding revealed that higher levels of texts do not necessarily guarantee higher lexical density indexes, that is to say, the levels of texts analyzed in this study did not match the expected indexes of lexical density. This is one aspect that can be improved of the K13 English textbook.
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References
Bashir, Mahrukh 2014 Buku Siswa Bahasa Inggris Kelas XI. Pusat Kurikulum dan Perbukuan, Balitbang, Kemdikbud Jakarta.
Castello, E. 2008.Text Complexity and Reading Comprehension Tests Reading Notes.http://adrien.barbaresi.e u/blog/e-castello-text-complexity-and- reading-comprehension-tests-reading- notes.html
Cheryl, A.E. 1995. The Relationship of
Lexical Proficiency to The Quality of
ESL Compositions. Journal of Second
Language Writing, 4(2), 139-155.
Didau, David (2013), Black space: improving writing by increasing lexical density, from The Learning Spy: Brain Food for the Thinking Teacher Halliday, M.A.K. 1985. Spoken and Written Language. Victoria: Deakin University Press.
Johansson, V. (2008), Lexical diversity and lexical density in speech and writing: a developmental perspective, Working Papers 53, 61-79.
To, Vinh Fan Si. and Thomas, Damon.
Lexical Density and Readability: A Case Study of English Textbooks.
Internet Journal of Language, Culture and Society, 37, 61-71.
Ure, J. (1971), Lexical density and register differentiation. In G. Perren and J.L.M. Trim (eds), Applications of Linguistics, London: Cambridge University Press.
-452.
Widiati, et.al.; 2015, Buku Siswa Bahasa Inggris Kelas XII. Pusat Kurikulum dan Perbukuan, Balitbang, Kemdikbud Jakarta.
Widiati, et.al.; 2014, Buku Siswa Bahasa Inggris Kelas X. Pusat Kurikulum dan Perbukuan, Balitbang, Kemdikbud Jakarta