An Analysis on Language Content and Readability Level of Primary English Textbook

Abstract

Teaching English is not easy. Teachers will sacrifice their time and energy to prepare better students in a constantly growing competitive environment. Textbook is one of many media that is used by the teacher to teach their students. So, choosing the textbook should be done selectively. This study was conducted to analyse language content and the readability level with Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formula. The study employed descriptive qualitative analysis methods. The data and source of data of this research was adopted from an English textbook entitled Learning Daily English for Grade 5 Elementary School published by Grafindo Media Pratama. All of the passages were concluded as good text because each text had relation to the thematic subject and the vocabulary existed in the text were daily used vocabulary. In terms of readability level, there were 5 texts that had a suitable level of readability. The other 6 texts were below the grade and age level. The other two texts were above the grade and age level of the students. Hopefully, these results would give a great contribution to the textbook selection and evaluation.