The ability of The Sixth Semester Students of English Education Department at IAIN Padangsdimpuan in mastering english affixation

Siregar, Khairul Mahlil (2022) The ability of The Sixth Semester Students of English Education Department at IAIN Padangsdimpuan in mastering english affixation. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research talked about students’ ability of the sixth semester of English Education Department at IAIN Padangsidimpuan in mastering English Affixation. The problems in this research focused on the students need to add suffixes to the words. Students got difficulties in detecting the form of word, lack of vocabulary and deciding the appropriate affixation. The purpose of this research was to know the ability at the sixth semester of English Education Department at IAIN Padangsidimpuan in mastering English affixation. To find how far they understand about the affixation of word, also to see their difficulties and find out the solutions from their difficulties in mastering English afixation. This research used descriptive quantitative followed by descriptive qualitative. Descriptive quantitative was used to explain the students’ ability and descriptive qualitative was used to explain the students’ difficulties and lecturers’ efforts. The population of this research were 114 students of English Education Department at IAIN Padangsidimpuan. This research used simple random sampling to take the sample, the samples were randomized, so based on the calculations that have been done there were 30 samples obtained. Based on the result of the research, this study got the description of the data and found that the mean score was 72,16. It means that the ability of the fifth semester of English Departrment was categorized good. Eventhough the students got good categorized, they still faced difficulties in mastering english affixation. Such like in detecting the form of word, lack of vocabulary and deciding the appropriate affixation. Where, the students difficult to differentiate the root and base of the word, difficult to do the processing of affixation if they met with the unfamiliar vocabulary and difficult to analyze the word classes of the word Finally, the efforts of lecturer to solve the students’ difficulties were the lecturer gave the learning module, to reopen the dictionary when met with the unfamiliar vocabulary and reexplained the material about affixation.

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