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READABILITY LEVELS OF READING TEXTS IN “ENGLISH IN FOCUS” BASED ON FLESCH-KINCAID FORMULA Kuntum Trilestari
HOLISTICS Vol. 8 No. 15 (2016): HOLISTICS VOLUME 8, NUMBER 15 JUNE 2016
Publisher : Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya

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Usually, a teacher uses a textbook when s/he is teaching reading to the students. Every reading text has its own readability. Readability of a textbook accommodates reading learning process because readability is one of instrument for measuring the word difficulty based on an analysis of language variables. Reading text should be readable for the readers. There is a question appears in this area, “what are readability levels of the reading texts in the textbook?”. This descriptive study tried to find out the readability levels of reading texts in “English in Focus” textbook for the eighth graders published by National Education Department (2008) based on Flesch-Kincaid formula. The data was taken from all reading texts in the textbook, and documentary technique was used to find the reading text. Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level were used to analyze reading difficulty level and reading grade level of the reading texts. For further detail, this article will discuss the findings of the study.
DESIGNING A SHORT FILM “FOOD HUNTERS” AS ONE OF MEDIA PROMOTION PALEMBANG CULINARY TOURISM Fadhilah Khairani; Kuntum Trilestari
HOLISTICS Vol. 11 No. 2 (2019): HOLISTICS JOURNAL HOSPITALITY AND LINGUISTICS
Publisher : Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya

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In Palembang, there are few people promoting culinary through the film as promotion media. Whereas culinary in Palembang is very potential to be known by tourists. The purpose of this research was to know how to design a short film as one of media to promote Palembang Tourism Culinary. Through film as media, viewers can see repeatedly for a long period of time. So when they come to Palembang, they will remember the foods in the film and start trying them.  The writers used Research and Development method to conduct this research. To collect the data, the writers used interview and observation techniques and analyzed the data through validation instrument done by experts. The result of this research was film could be used as one of media to promote culinary tourism in Palembang. Moreover, the short film was uploaded to YouTube in order to see the responses from people or viewers of Palembang Culinary.