THE ANALYSIS OF DERIVATIONAL AFFIXATION IN A SHORT STORY ENTITLED GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS BY E.W HORNUNG AND THE APPLICATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

Having knowledge about the process of affixation, which is one of the ways of forming new words, helps the readers of English text to guess the meaning difficult words which involves the affixes. This study aims at describing the derivational affixation in a short story Gentlemen and Players by E.W Hornung. In particular, it describes kinds of affixes which are used in the sentences and the application of derivational affixation in language teaching. This research employs the descriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research is a short story entitled Gentlemen and Players written by E.W Hornung. The techniques for collecting the data are by reading the short story entirely, collecting the words which contain derivational affixes, and classifying the words into derivational affixes. The data analysis is done by observing the data, classifying the data base on derivational affixes, rechecking the data, describing and discussing the kinds of derivational affixes, and drawing conclusion. The result of this research shows that derivational affixes are used in the short story entitled Gentlemen and Players by E.W Hornung. Derivational affixes classified into two categories, they are class-changing derivational and classmaintaining derivational. Class-changing derivational divided into noun derivational, verb derivational, adjective derivational, and adverb derivational. Class-maintaining derivational divided into noun, verb and adjective pattern. The application of affixation in a short story Gentlemen and Player in Language Teaching is to teach vocabulary in English lesson at twelfth grade in Vocational High School. The researcher hopes that the students are suggested to learn the used of derivational affixation. By learning the affixation, the student can improve their knowledge of new vocabulary.