The Nature of Sentence Structure Used in Descriptive Text in English Textbook “Work in Progress”
Keywords:
Reading Text, English Textbook, Sentence StructureAbstract
Textbook is one of the primary media to support the student’s daily life in pedagogical activities at school. There are several materials that should enhance the student's skills for example reading text, educative illustration, problem-solving questions, etc. This research attempted to investigate the sentence structure of the textbook which is one of the factors that affects the textbook’s readability and complexity. The objectives of the research were to identify the sentence structure used inside the textbook based on simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex. The source of data was taken from an English Textbook for 10th-grade students entitled “Work in Progress”. By using documentation to acquire the sample, the researcher found out that 5 different texts could be used for the experiment. After sorting out the data, the researcher then calculates each of the text sentence structure types based on the simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. The result presented that there are a variety of sentence structures in every text that were found. Simple sentences are the highest sentence structure used with 61%, complex sentences are second with 23%, compound-complex with 16%, and compound-complex 5% usage rate. This result is due to the grades of students who still need to learn to differentiate between simple sentences and complex sentences.
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