The Analysis of Word Formation Used in Pitch Perfect 2 Movie Script and Its Application in Teaching Writing to the Tenth Grade of Senior High School

Abstract

This research focuses on analysis of word formation used in Pitch Perfect 2 movie script and its application in teaching writing. The objectives of the study are to identify the categories of word formation used in Pitch Perfect 2 movie script, to describe the lexical meanings of word formation that used in Pitch Perfect 2 movie script, and to describe the application of teaching writing by using word formation in Pitch Perfect 2 movie script. This research is a qualitative research and used descriptive qualitative method. The researcher obtained the data from the Pitch Perfect 2 movie script. To collect the data, the researcher searched and downloaded the movie script and analyzed the word formation on the movie script. Then to analyze the data, the researcher read the movie script, coding the data from the movie script, taking the word formation’s data, classifying the data to the types of word formation, and making conclusion. The result of the analysis shows that are 176 data from eleven categories of word formation used in Pitch Perfect 2 movie script. There are coinage 6 words (3.5%), borrowing 20 words (11%), compounding 51 words (30%), blending 5 words (3%), clipping 32 words (18%), back formation 2 words (1%), conversion 9 words (5%), acronyms 3 words (1.5%), and multiple processes 5 words (3%). The categories of word formation that used in Pitch Perfect 2 movie script can be applied in teaching writing with the material about announcement. Some steps to teach are giving material about announcement text and word formation, reading the movie script, identifying word formation in announcement based on movie script, and asking students to make announcement text.