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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MAKASSAR
2017
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
There are four skills that expected to develop in English, they are listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. Mastering those skills become the goal in learning
English. In order to achieve that goal, vocabulary plays a very important role. It is
the basic element that is needed to perform those skills well. In listening,
vocabulary helps students to recognize what other people say; in speaking, it helps
text; while in writing, it helps students to express their ideas in written form. This
acquire an adequate number of vocabularies and know how to use them correctly.
emotions, and feelings if they have a very limited vocabulary. Alqahtani (2015)
states that vocabulary knowledge is often viewed as a critical tool for second
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The researcher has conducted an interview and observation in SMK Negeri
who teaches in tenth grade, students problem are in vocabulary and grammar.
That statement is supported by the result of the observation. The researcher gave a
Based on the test, the students’ lowest score is in vocabulary section. After the
test, the researcher discussed the test with the students. The researcher found that
the students understood almost all the words in the test; they just did not know
noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. For example, words beauty, beautify, beautiful,
and beautifully. Based on the problem above, the researcher concludes that the
vocabulary mastery such as by using games or pictures but the researcher assumes
that teaching derivational affixes is more effective. Reasons that underlying the
researcher assumption are, (1) the understanding of derivational affixes can help
students to get some new words just by adding affixes to a word they have already
known, and (2) derivational affixes knowledge can be used by the students
anytime they want unlike games and pictures that can be used only when they are
played or shown.
teaching. Active vocabulary is words that are used in conversation and written
texts. It means the students will not only enrich their vocabulary but also improve
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their speaking and writing skills. This research is feasible because it is based on
morphology class.
research under the title: Teaching Derivational Affixes to Enrich Students’ Active
Vocabulary Mastery.
B. Problem Statement
recognise word but unable to use it in a sentence correctly because they cannot
differentiate the word class. In order to overcome that problem, the researcher
follow:
mastery?
Based on the problem statement and research question, the objective of this
research is to find out whether or not teaching derivational affixes could enrich
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and positive contribution of learning theory. Practically, they are also expected to
Teachers of English
mastery.
Students of English
Other Researchers
vocabulary. The affixes are based on the text book used by the tenth grade
students. In this case there are 15 affixes which are divided into 4 groups depend
on the word class they formed. They are noun formation (-ance; -al; -ion; -ment; -
or), verb formation (-en; -ize), adjective formation (-ful; -y; -able; -ive; -ous; -less;
un-), and adverb formation (-ly). In order to achieve vocabulary mastery, this
research will also focus on spelling and pronunciation, denotation meaning and
the use in context of present tense. Since this research deals active vocabulary
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mastery, it means this research will also deals with writing and speaking skills,
but the researcher will just focus more on writing skill. By activity, the researcher
will teach word formation by adding affixes and give some exercises to the
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CHAPTER II
Year Students of SMK Nurul Qalam Makassar” concluded that using the mastery
students are interested in that technique proved by the students’ response in the
questionnaire.
His research was conducted in 4 meetings; pre-test was given in the first
meeting, and the treatment in the next two meetings and in the last meeting was
post-test. He applied pre-experimental research design which took only one group
as the sample with 30 students. The sampling technique that was used by him is
total sampling.
The similarity between this research and Yusri’s is both of them teach
research will use derivational affixes as the treatment. The differences between
this research and Yusri’s are this research will only focuses on 15 affixes based on
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the text book used by students while Yusri’s teach all the affixes. This research
also will enrich active vocabulary while Yusri’s build up vocabulary in general.
B. Pertinent Ideas
1. Vocabulary
a. Definition of Vocabulary
from, how they change, how they relate to each other and how they are used
by us to view the world. Richards and Schmidt (2010:629) also state that
and idioms.
in the foreign language. Vocabulary may be more than a single word. It can
be made up of two or three words but express a single idea, for example,
vocabulary is:
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Based on the definitions above, it is understood that vocabulary is all
words and idioms that express a single idea and have meanings. Therefore
vocabulary
b. Kinds of Vocabulary
recognised and understood by the student when they occur in a context, but
to words that are used in conversation and written texts. On the other hand,
receptive vocabulary refers to words that are understood when they occur in
a text.
productive vocabulary are similar. Both of them refer to words that are used
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1) Orthography
2) Syntax
the ways in which words combine to form sentences and the rules
3) Association
4) Grammatical functions
if it is grammatically incorrect.
Meaning and form deal with the form of a second language word
and its meaning in the first language. The students should be able
to link the second language form with the first language meaning.
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d. Vocabulary Mastery
using the vocabulary. It deals with words form, meaning and use.
based on their own interests, needs and motivation. So, it is understood that
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2. Morphology
that deals with words, their internal structure and how they are formed.
Morphology
Inflection Word-formation
Derivation Compounding
3. Derivation
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new words from existing words: adjectives from nouns, adjectives from
Derivation
Affixation Non-affixation
4. Affixes
words; for example -er in player, en- in enlarge, -ing in reading, etc.
etc.
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2) Infixes are bound morphemes that are inserted within the
etc.
of speech.
noun, verb, adjective, and adverb formation. Since this research only
focuses on several affixes based on the text book used, the researcher only
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a. Noun Formation
1) Suffix –ance/–ence
For example:
2) Suffix –al
example:
3) Suffix –ation/–ition/–tion/–sion
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4) Suffix –ment
5) Suffix –ar/–or/–er
example:
b. Verb Formation
1) Suffix –en
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2) Suffix –ize
For example:
c. Adjective Formation
1) Suffix –al
2) Suffix –ful
3) Suffix –y
For example:
hunger(n) + –y = hungry
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thirst(n) + –y = thirsty
trick(n) + –y = tricky
4) Suffix –able
5) Suffix –ive
6) Suffix –ous
7) Suffix –less
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care(v) + –less = careless
8) Prefix un–
d. Adverb Formation
1) Suffix –ly
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C. Conceptual Framework
following:
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The research is about teaching derivational affixes to enrich students’ active
vocabulary mastery. In the process of teaching vocabulary, the researcher will also
Derivational affixes are divided into four, noun formation, verb formation,
adjective formation, and adverb formation. These affixes are based on the text
book used by the students. Noun formation consists of five affixes, -ance; -al; -
ion; -ment; and -or. Verb formation consists of two affixes, -en and –ize.
Adjective formation consists of seven affixes, -ful; -y; -able; -ive; -ous; -less; un-.
affixes, the students probably will enrich their active vocabulary mastery. The will
be able to understand the word based on its form, meaning and usage.
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D. Hypothesis
vocabulary mastery.
vocabulary mastery.
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Design
group pre-test and post-test. The pre-test will be administered before the treatment
to find out the students’ prior knowledge and post-test will be administered after
the treatment to measure the effect of the treatment. The design is presented as
follow:
O1 X O2
Note:
O1 : Pre-test
O2 : Post-test
X : Treatment
This research consists of two variables. They are independent and dependent
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1. Teaching Derivational Affixes
words from their form, meaning and use especially in writing and
speaking.
1. Population
The population of the research will be the tenth grade students of SMK
2. Sample
researcher will take one class of the population as sample and it will be
D. Research Instrument
vocabulary test. The test will be used in pre-test and post-test. Pre-test consists of
of 35 items, 25 of them are similar with the pre-test and 10 items of determining
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word class as addition. The pre-test will be given before the treatment to know the
students’ prior knowledge, while the post-test will be given after the treatment to
1. Pre-test
The pre-test will be given to the students before the treatment. There will
2. Treatment
After giving pre-test, the researcher will give treatment. The procedures
of treatment are:
adding affixes.
treatment in each meeting will be almost same. The difference is just the
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a. First meeting will be focus on affixes used in noun formation. They
They are suffix -ful; -y; -able; -ive; -ous; -less; and prefix un-.
suffix -ly.
e. Fifth meeting will cover all the affixes from the first to forth
meeting.
3. Post-test
The post-test will be given to the students after the treatment and it is just
like the pre-test. The aim is to find out the students’ active vocabulary
2. Raw score will be converted to set score of maximum 100 using the
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3. Classifying the students raw score into five levels as follows:
4. Computing the frequency and the rate percentage of the students’ scores
fq
P= 100%
N
Notation:
P = percentage
Fq = number of correct answer/frequency
N = the number of subjects
5. Calculating the mean score of the students answer by using the SPSS
Analysis.
6. Finding out the standard deviation of the students’ answer pre-test and
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