TYPES OF AFFIXATION FOUND IN READING TEXTSOF ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR THE FIRST GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN TULUNGAGUNG

Sugiarto, Arif (2015) TYPES OF AFFIXATION FOUND IN READING TEXTSOF ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR THE FIRST GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN TULUNGAGUNG. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Reading is one of language skills that is almost dominant in teaching learning process. Reading is also very important skill that we should consider in learning English, it becomes the basic foundation of academic skills because most subjects need the skills of reading. The success of teaching learning process cannot be separated from the role of reading. However, reading mastery is not easy to learn for the students in EFL because they should understand about words and sentences that they used in their prior knowledge which is becoming to be a good reader that focuses primarily on what them already knows about the topic in reading text. They may use morpheme, semantic, syntax and context clause to identify the meaning of unknown words in the text. So, linguistic category also plays an important role in reading. Therefore, the learners need to learn about the affixations as one of part in linguistic category, morpheme. ). Affixes is defined as a closed class of grammatical elements within the word. They are bound morpheme and cannot occur on their own. A fair number of affixes change the word class of the root to which they are affixed. Affixation is very important to be learned by every learner who wants to study the content of English text, because it will help them todevelop student’s general understanding in reading text it isbecause every type of affixation while present different meaning. So the students will easily understand the meaning of unfamiliar words in the text. Having seeing such phenomenon, the writer found that mastering English is not easy if the students are lack of vocabulary, especially in affixation. This research aimed to find out the types of affixation found in the reading text of textbook used by the first grade of senior high school. The formulation of the research problem are:1). what types of each affixation (derivational Affixes) are found in the textbooks used by the first grade of senior high school in Tulungagung? and2) how are the frequencies of occurrence of each types of affixation (derivational Affixes) in the textbooks used by the first grade of senior high school. The purpose of this study are: 1) To know types of each affixation (derivational Affixes)are found in the reading text in English textbook for the first grade of senior high school in Tulungagung. And 2) To know the frequencies of occurrences of each type of affixation (derivational Affixes) in the reading text in English textbook for the first grade of senior high school in Tulungagung. Research methodology: 1) research design : the design use in this study is descriptive quantitative approach. 2) In this research, the population that was used by the researcher was all reading text in English textbook used by the first grade of senior high school in Tulungagung. 3) The sampling technique of this study is purposive sampling. 4) The sample of this study is 4 English textbook, they were consist 44 of reading text. 5) the research instrument was in the form of document, and 6) the data analysis. The result of this study are :1) the writer found out there were two kinds of affixes. They were preffix and suffix. 2). There is prefixationof 20 prefixes of negative prefix and 18 prefixes of other prefix with various meaning. Then suffix of 3 suffixes verb formation, 58 suffixes of adverb formation, 99 suffixes of noun formation include noun derived from verb, noun derived from adjectives and nouns derived from other nouns. Then 101 suffixes of adjective formation include adjective derived from nouns and adjective derived from verb. There is no diminutive. 3) There are affixes which are mostly used in reading text in English textbook at the first grade of senior high school with the frequency of the occurrence 12.70% for prefix and 87.30% for suffix or fifty four types of affixation. There is dominant of Suffixes. Based on the research findings, the researcher suggested some suggestions,they were: 1) for the teacher, They can apply the type of affixation by separating the affixes clearly to the student mastering vocabulary, So, This research used as their reference to teach reading. 2)for the student, they should learn the affixes because from it can create a new meaning that can improve their vocabulary and also help the student to easy understand the meaning of unfamiliar word in the text, especially about affixation.3) For other researcher to conduct further research on similar area by improving or use it as reference to conduct a further research related to types of affixation in the same topic or area. This study is very important it will give some knowledge to the researcher and to know various type of affixation

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