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Lexical Density Of Reading Text In English Textbook For Tenth Graders Of Senior Highschool
Reading is one of the language skill that must be developed besides
writing, listening and speaking. Having a good reading ability will helps
students comprehend any written text material and get information from
them. To know level of Lexical density connected text comprehending by
the students in the narrative textbook.
This study focuses on Narrative text in the Bahasa inggris textbook
from Tenth Grade of Senior Highschool .The study using descriptive
qualitative as a research design. The instrument is the writer herself. The
source of data is taken from Bahasa inggris textbook from Tenth Grade
of Senior Highschool published in Klaten, August 2016.
This study aims to describe the level of lexical density in narrative
texts. The theory supported this analysis are theory proposed by Ure to
find out lexical density in narrative text. The steps of analysis:
identifying the lexical density especially lexical item and grammatical
item, analyzing the data based on the problem discussed and drawing
conclusion based on finding and discussion.
The result shows that there are ten of narrative text, they are in the
low level of lexical density. So, reading text in Bahasa Inggris textbook
for Tenth grade of Senior High School is around 40%-50%.It means that
the reading texts are Low level of lexical densities. Lexical Density is can
not be connected with the comprehending text. It means that Lexical
Density is not the one of the most principal factor. But there are more
another factors which make the textbook appropriate for the students.
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