KLAUSA (Kajian Linguistik, Pembelajaran Bahasa, dan Sastra)
Vol 8 No 1 (2024): KLAUSA Vol 8 No 1 (2024)

LEXICAL DENSITY AND READABILITY IN STUDENTS’ THESIS INTRODUCTIONS

Siregar, May Sarah (Unknown)
Hara, Nina Tiya (Unknown)
Sinar, Tengku Silvana (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Jun 2024

Abstract

This study investigates lexical density and readability in students’ undergraduate thesis introductions. Documentation technique is used to collect the data while qualitative content analysis was employed as the method to present the data. The data of this study were content words and sentences taken from the data sources of 20 undergraduate’s thesis introductions. The scores of lexical density and readability were obtained by using Flesch Reading Ease Tool online. The findings show that all introductions exhibit high lexical density, with scores ranging from 51,28% to 68,08%. Whilst, the readability scores range from 10.92 to 17.58, and they are all categorized as being very difficult writings. In summary, the findings demonstrate that all thesis introductions exhibit a high level of complexity in their writing. These introductions showcase the deliberate use of rich and precise content words. Consequently, they pose a significant challenge for comprehension due to their density.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

klausa

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

KLAUSA (Kajian Linguistik, Pembelajaran Bahasa, dan Sastra) is a journal of linguistics, literature, and language teaching that was published for the first time in 2012 (in print) by the Faculty of Language and Arts, Universitas Ma Chung. The journal publishes research and review articles in the ...