Morphological Pattern of Adjective Words used in Descriptive Essay Writen by Thrid Semester Students of English Education Department of IAIN Tulungagung

Fitriyah, Lailatul (2014) Morphological Pattern of Adjective Words used in Descriptive Essay Writen by Thrid Semester Students of English Education Department of IAIN Tulungagung. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keywords: morphology, adjective word, descriptive essay. Adjective is one part of word classes which modifies nouns and pronouns. We need it if we want to describe something both written and orally. In writing activities, students usually get some difficulties to determine what adjective use. It happened because of their limited knowledge of adjective forms. Adjective has own characteristics. Like the other word classes, adjective also formed by affixation. Adjective can be formed from noun, verb, adverb, and adjective itself by adding affix. In descriptive essay adjective word as the language feature, the researcher is interested in analyzing the students writing of adjective word because by knowing the students writing of adjective word the researcher can know how far the understanding of the students constructing words and what types of adjective pattern students make in their writing. The formulation of the research problems were: 1) What are the morphological patterns of adjective words used in descriptive essay written by the third semester students of English study program of IAIN Tulungagung?2) How are the frequencies of occurrence of each type of morphological pattern of adjective word used in descriptive essay written by the third semester students of English study program of IAIN Tulungagung? The purpose of this study were to: 1) to know the morphological patterns of adjective words used in descriptive essay written by the third semester students of English study program of IAIN Tulungagung.2) To know the frequencies of occurrence of each type of morphological pattern of adjective words used in descriptive essay written by the third semester students of English study program of IAIN Tulungagung Research Method: 1) the research design in this study was descriptive design with quantitative approach. 2) the population of this study was all of the third semester students of English Departement Program of IAIN Tulungagung academic year 2013/2014, 3) the sample was A class consisting of 26 students, 4) the research instrument document, 5) the data analysis was using statistical technique. The result showed that the 122 occurrences of base adjective pattern that used in descriptive essay of the third semester students. It means that the students writing used base adjective is more than the other pattern. Prefix + root word = adjective. Adjective in this pattern which used by 26 students writing of descriptive essay only a few found, there were only 2 occurrences of this pattern. It means that ix the students writing used prefix + root words is less than the pattern of base adjective. Root word + suffix = adjectives. There were 35 occurrences of this pattern. It means that the students writing used root word + suffix is more than the pattern of prefix + root word. In this type, there are some varieties of forming adjective words. The adjective word can be formed from noun, verb, adverb, and adjective itself by adding suffix. By analyzing the forming of adjective words by adding suffix to other word classes, the researcher concludes that the suffixes can be marked of adjective words. The students often find difficulties on writing when she/he had to use the suitable word or vocabulary to write with adjective words, especially if the adjective is an adjective derived from another word class. Prefix + root word + suffix = adjective. In this pattern of adjective the researcher did not find this type of pattern, because all of the students still make base adjective in their writing or the students still has a few knowledge about this pattern so, It means that the students writing used prefix + root words + suffix is less than the pattern of prefix + root word

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