LEVELS OF READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR GRADE XII STUDENTS

This study aimed to analyze Levels of Reading Comprehension Questions in
English Textbooks for Grade XII Students. The design of this research was a
descriptive qualitative study. This research was conducted in SMA Negeri 4
Binjai. The data of this study was documentation from two English textbook. The
source of data in the study is the questions in the two English textbooks "Bahasa
Inggris" published by Kemendikbud and "Talk Active" published by Yudhistira
for third grade. The Interactive Analytical Model by Miles & Huberman (2014)
model was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that there are books that
use and do not use Barrett’s Taxonomy levels for the reading comprehension
questions but in significantly different ratio. In the textbook entitled Bahasa
Inggris the percentages are showed as follows: Literal (35.89%), Inference
(43.58%), Evaluation (12.82%) and Appreciation (7.69%). While, for the textbook
published by Yudhistira the percentages are showed as follows: Literal (30.88%),
Inference (69.11%), and there is not any evaluation and appreciation level. There
are two underlying reasons of writer of textbook using levels of reading
comprehension question. The first reason is different understanding of objectives
of reading comprehension. The second is different knowledge of teaching reading
comprehension.