by: Rezki Aulia
Teachers of English are demanded to choose suitable
reading materials for their students. The appropriate reading material can
influence the motivation and interest of the students to read. Johnson (2000:
1) points out that “the interest and motivation of the reader are the factors
that affect success in reading and understanding a text”. Therefore, I think
Discourse Readability can be used by teacher to consider whether the text book
has a good reading material that suitable wit the grade level of target reader
or students who will read it. It can be
used to measure readability of reading materials at all level (Burns, et al., 1996: 482). Besides that, it
gives an easy way to the teacher in determining readability of reading material
he or she will be taught, and can help to determine the target reader of a
written text (Harjasujanaet al.,
1996: 123).
Discourse
Describing about discourse in this review is
important, to know the range of the understanding that is explained. Lubis
(1993: 20) argues that the complete language unit actually is not word or
sentence, but discourse. This argument is in accordance with Kridalaksana’
assertion that discourse is the highest
