GRAMMATICAL INTRICACY AND LEXICAL DENSITY OF READING TEXTS OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

This study deals with the grammatical intricacy and lexical density of the reading texts of English textbook for senior high school students. It was aimed to investigate the levels of grammatical intricacy (GI) and lexical density (LD) in the reading text, the ways of the levels of grammatical intricacy (GI) and lexical density (LD) are distributed among the types of text in the reading text, the reason why the grammatical intricacy (GI) and lexical density (LD) are distributed in their ways. This study used descriptive qualitative method then the design was content analysis design. The subject of this study is the World 2, English textbook for senior high school grade XI published by Yudhistira, 2007. The object of this study were the simple clauses, clause complexes, sentences, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and all the words in the text of reading text in The World 2, English Textbook. The data were analyzed by using the Interactive Model by Miles, Huberman and Saldana. Based on the data analysis, the levels of grammatical intricacy were low while the levels of lexical density in each reading text were low, medium and high. Then the way of levels of grammatical intricacy and lexical density distributed among the types of text were through the total number of clause complexes, simple clauses, nouns, verb, adjectives, adverbs and all the words in the text which were available in each reading text. And the reasons why grammatical intricacy and lexical density were distributed among types of the text were because of the genre and the topic of each text.