LEXICAL DENSITY OF READING MATERIALS USED IN BAHASA INGGRIS TEXTBOOK FOR 10TH GRADE STUDENT OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the reading materials in the textbook. Many researchers find that factor that influences difficulty in reading materials is lexical density. The aim of this study is to know how informative the text from 10 texts that include in genre text. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research. The procedure of collecting data, the researcher applied document technique. After analyze, noun gets 61,6% then following by verb 24,8%, adjective 10,1%, and adverb 3,5%. The lexical density of reading materials in the textbook are four texts gain medium level, three texts gain low level, and only a text that gains a high level. The researcher concludes that most of reading material in this textbook medium level of lexical density, which means that the reading materials in this textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for 10th grade of Senior High School published by Kemendikbud 2016 are easy to understand and belong to the type of informative texts.