An Analysis of Affixation Error in Essay Writing by Third Grade Students of English Department of Mataram University Academic Year 2017/2018
| Main Author: | RONI, ABDUL |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.unram.ac.id/4302/1/PUBLICATION%20JOURNAL.pdf http://eprints.unram.ac.id/4302/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This research aims at finding out the types of affixation error and the most dominant type of affixation error made by the students. The researcher limits the two primary types of affixes: Prefixes and Suffixes. This research also refers to Zapata (2007: 2) that classified affixes into derivational and inflectional affixes. Meanwhile, in analyzing the affixation errors made by the students, it uses four types of errors proposed by Dulay (1982) such as omission, addition errors, misformation errors and misordering errors. The result of the study shows that from 29 essay writing, there were 384 affixes that consist of derivational prefixes, derivational suffixes and inflectional suffixes. There were 70 errors on the use of affixation. There were 24 error sentences (34.28%) in the use of derivational suffixes –ing, -ion, -ly, -ness. There were 46 error sentences (65.72%) in the use of inflectional suffixes –s plural, -s present, -ed past, -ing present participle, and (0%) error in the use of derivational prefixes. Based on the percentage of each error, the most dominant one was on inflectional suffixes (65.72%) and the omission of suffix –s (34.78%) in plural form is the highest. Followed by derivational suffixes (34.28%) and the omission of suffix –ing (50.00%) is the