Hidayah, Nurul (2009) The Ability in Using Prefixes and Suffixes for Increasing Vocabulary of the Sixth Semester Students in the English Department of IAIN Antasari Academic Year 2009/2010. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Nurul Hidayah. 2010. The Ability in Using Prefixes and Suffixes for Increasing Vocabulary of the Sixth Semester Students in the English Department of IAIN Antasari Academic Year 2009/2010. Thesis, English Department, Tarbiyah Faculty. Advisor: (I) Dra. Hj. Nida Mufidah, M. Pd, (II) Ridha Fadillah, M. Ed. This study describes the ability in using prefixes and suffixes for increasing vocabulary of the sixth semester students in the English Department of IAIN Antasari Academic Year 2009/2010. The problems in this research are: How is the ability in using prefixes and suffixes for increasing vocabulary of the sixth semester students in the English Department of IAIN Antasari academic year 2009/2010? And what are the most common errors in using prefixes and suffixes of the sixth semester students in the English Department of IAIN Antasari academic year2009/2010? Based on the statement of problems above, this study is supposed to better understand the students’ ability in using prefixes and suffixes for increasing vocabulary and the most students’ common errors in using prefixes and suffixes. The subjects in this research are 51 of 61 students in the English Department of IAIN Antasari in academic year 2009/2010. The objects of this research are the ability in using prefixes and suffixes for increasing vocabulary of the sixth semester students in the English Department of IAIN Antasari Academic Year 2009/2010 and the most students’ common errors in using prefixes and suffixes. The data collection used: test, observation, interview and documentary. Data processing in this research is divided into five stages, they are editing, coding, scoring, tabulating and interpreting. Then all data analyzed descriptively and quantitatively and use inductive method to make conclusion. The result of the research denoted that the level of students’ ability in using prefixes and suffixes is in fair category. It is based on calculation its mean that is 65,4. After analyzing each type of test, the writer found that the most students’ common errors is in suffixes (46,4%) and both of prefixes-suffixes (42,8%), those are more difficult than prefixes which percentage of students’ common errors is 10,7%. It can be concluded that happened because of a word can be attached by a prefix, a suffix, both of prefix-suffix even more than one suffixes. The inflectional and derivational process also can influence which affix should be attached to a word. The writer also concludes that the students are not familiar with some common list of English prefixes and suffixes. Therefore, they think those are difficult for them even to combine both of prefixes-suffixes word may be attached. Moreover the writer found that there are many example of prefixes, suffixes and roots where most of English prefixes and suffixes are taken from Greek and Latin.

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