IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Lite

Unveiling Indonesian EFL Textbooks Content: Lexical Density and Readability

Alifia Berlianti (Unknown)
Slamet Utomo (Unknown)
Atik Rokhayani (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Dec 2025

Abstract

The complexity of reading text can be determined by lexical density and readability levels. The purposes of the research are to find the lexical density and readable level of reading text in local textbooks of Indonesian EFL. This research took a descriptive qualitative approach; the document of this study was fourteen reading text selected from each chapter from Modul Belajar Praktis Bahasa Inggris. The researcher grounded on Ure’s (1971) for lexical density and Flesch’s (1994) for determine readability level. After analyzing the data, the result show that all lexical density of the reading texts was high and the readability score ranging from 43.46 to 80.36. Based on Flesch’s (1994) from the fourteen reading texts from this textbook was classified into 5 level: easy for two texts, fairly easy for five texts, standard for two texts, fairly difficult for three and difficult for three.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ideas

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

IDEAS Journal is published twice a year in the months of June and December (P-ISSN 2338-4778 and E-ISSN 2548-4192); it presents articles on English language teaching and learning, linguistics, and literature. The contents include analyses, studies and application of theories, research report, ...