AN ANALYSIS OF AFFIXATION IN THE JAKARTA POST ARTICLES AND ITS APPLICATION ON TEACHING GRAMMAR

Abstract

This research is concerned on the analysis of affixation in the Jakarta Post articles. The subject of this thesis is the Jakarta Post articles published on January, April, and May. The objectives of this research are to find out the forms of affixations in the Jakarta Post articles, to find out the meanings of affixations in the Jakarta Post articles, and to applicate of affixation on teaching grammar. The research is qualitative descriptive method to explore the affixation in the jakarta Post articles. The object of this thesis is articles in Jakarta Post, those articles were published in January, April, and May 2014. The researcher took five articles. Method of data collection were library research and observation. Method of data analysis were searching Jakarta Post newspaper at www.jakartapost.com, collecting the articles from Jakarta Post, classifying the article from Jakarta Post, verifying the five suitable articles which would being analyzed, analyzing form and meaning of affixation in those articles and applicating on teaching grammar. The result of this thesis shows that the researcher found two kinds of affixes, they were prefix and suffix. In prefix, there were prefixes with various meaning. In suffix there were five formations. They were 5 suffixes ofverb formation, 119 suffixes of noun formation, 62 suffixes of adjective formation, 21suffixes of adverb formation and no diminutive. Besides, the researcher also analyse about inflectional affix there were 3 inflectional affixes. They were verb, noun and adjective.They were 84 inflectional affixes of verb, 98 inflectional affixes of noun and 8 inflectional affixes of adjective. In this research which took five articles in Jakarta Post, the researcher found that noun formation was the most dominant formation in those articles.There were 119 suffixes of noun formation and no diminutive. Based on the research findings, the researcher suggested some suggestions, they were: for the researcher, the researcher shoud be able to give contribution as an example in teaching English grammar. We know that in teaching English, we need to give good examples in order to make the student understand about it. For English Department, the study of affixation has a contribution for English department, especially Muhammadiyah university of Purworejo about morphological study. For the reader, the result of this thesis can be used as reference in studying grammar, especially about affixation.