The readability of English texbooks by means of readability tools from Microsoft Office Word

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ALWAN MAGHFURIN. The readability of English texbooks by means of
readability tools from Microsoft Office Word. A Paper, Jakarta, The Study
Programme of English Education, The Faculty of Teacher Training and Pedagogy,
The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2018
The purpose of the study is to measure the passage reading difficulty of
Indonesian secondary English textbook. The study evaluated a textbook entitled
English on Sky 2. The textbook was evaluated using traditional formula such as
Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Scale and Coleman-Liau Grade
Level. The result showed that the textbook is too easy to be implemented for 8th
grade. Surprisingly, there is a text that almost suitable for 8th grade which has 7.4
grade.