Jurnal ilmiah INSPIRASI: karyamu menginspirasiku Volume IV/Nomor 1/Juni 2018

This paper is aimed at investigating how to analyze texts’ readabilities in the perspective of discourse analysis; thus, English teachers can choose and apply the appropriate texts as the teaching materials for their students. This investigation should be done inasmuch as there are many textbooks presenting texts which are inappropriate with the students’ level of reading skill. It might cause the students frustrated when they come across texts which are too difficult for them. The objects of this study are three different texts about butterflies taken from three different sources. The study employed descriptive qualitative. Besides, all aspects of the texts which contribute to the readabilities of the texts are as the concern of this study to be investigated by using Gerot and Wignell (1995) and Eggins’ (2004)
theories.Based on the result, there are three central elements of the texts which substantially contribute to the texts’ readabilities such as technical terms, noun phrases, and finiteness. Finally, it is suggested that the teachers analyze the three elements of texts as the consideration in adjusting the texts’ level of readabilities with the student "level of reading skills