READABILITY AND USABILITY OF STORY BOOKS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

This research is focused on the readability level of story books for teaching English,
and the usability of story books from the students’ and teacher’s perspective in tenth
grade students at SMA Labschool Upgris. The objectives of this research were (1)
to identify the readability level of story books for teaching English (2) to
investigates the usability of story books from the students’ perspective (3) to
analyze the usability of story books from the teachers’ perspective. The objects of
the research are English story books as retold by Sugeng Hariyanto entitled
“Nasreddin, a man who never given up”. Flesch Reading Ease formula used to
analyze the data. This research is categorized as descriptive qualitative method of
the research. This research involves at SMA Labschool Upgris. This research was
conducted in three stages of research. The three stages were (1) the researcher
measures the readability level of story books based on Flesch Reading Ease
Formula (2) the researcher describes the results of the students’ perspective (3) the
researcher describes the results of the teachers’ perspective questionnaire in the
usability of story books for teaching English. The overall explanation of the results
and after conducting research on the readability level and usability of story books
for teaching English to tenth grade students in high school, the researcher can
conclude that by reading story books, students are able to improve their ability to
learn to read by thinking creatively and critically. The average readability score
results of this storybook are 52,46, which can be classified as Flesch Reading Ease.
This means that the readability level of the storybook is fairly difficult to read by
students in grades 10 to 12. The concluded that the story book entitled "Nasreedin,
a man who never gives up" for tenth grade SMA has been a very good story books
and appropriate.