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How Complex are Indonesia’s Senior High School Textbooks? A View for College Readiness

Authors
P Suryadi, I Rifai
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Available Online 21 October 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211020.025How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Senior High School, Textbooks, readiness
Abstract

In some Indonesia’s higher education, English language has been used as elective language of instruction. The textbooks read at this level of education are mainly written in English too. Thus, the skills to speak and read in English fluently are two very important skills at this level. With the focus on content’s density, it is reasonable if textbooks at university level are more challenging than textbooks at high school level. To get students ready for a more challenging college reading, it is important for high school students to be introduced to texts of various complexity. This paper reports the analysis of English textbooks for grades ten to twelve to find a range of complexities that would support students’ readiness for college. The textual analysis was mostly done qualitatively by using qualitive measure of text complexity that include analysis of texts purpose, reader background knowledge, text structure, and many more. This research found that there was only small incremental complexity throughout the texts and textbooks by grade progression. We found that the reading texts were lack in challenges and were insufficient to help students prepare for college level reading.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 October 2021
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10.2991/assehr.k.211020.025
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211020.025How to use a DOI?
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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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