Morfological Awareness of Students English Language Program of Universitas Islam Riau Pekanbaru: An Analysis Study

R Rugaiyah

doi:10.51601/ijersc.v2i1.31

Abstract

This study is aimed to investigate the students’ morphological awareness which is employed by the third semester of English students FKIP Universitas Islam Riau Pekanbaru Riau, Indonesia.This study is the qualitative design namely case study. The instrument of this study was documentation or the scrips of the students in the final examination result in the academic year 2019-2020. In this case, the researcher has analyzed the data using the Cresswell method. The result of this study found that some of the students still have a problem in using derivational affixes such as in changing the classes of words from verb to noun, noun to adjective, adjective to a verb, adjective to an adverb

Highlights

1.INTRODUCTION Linguistics is one of the subjects offered to English students of FKIP
All parts of linguistics are taught to the students, such as; Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantic, Pragramatics, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic
Students still become frustrated about the form of affixation and its meaning. it caused by morphology only presented in the third semester, it means that students do not have enough time to explore the use of affixes

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Introduction

Linguistics is one of the subjects offered to English students of FKIPUniversitas Islam Riau, Pekanbaru. All parts of linguistics are taught to the students, such as; Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantic, Pragramatics, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic. They spread out into different levels of the semester. Without understanding the affixation of the languages he may find the difficulties if he wants to master one or more languages. For this reason, Mostly students still become frustrated about the form of affixation and its meaning. The general objective of this study was to know the students’ knowledge and understanding of morphological awareness based on the students’final examination results

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