A MORPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES FOUND IN EDUCATION ARTICLES OF THE JAKARTA POST AND ITS APPLICATION IN TEACHING WRITING IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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2019-09-21
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Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas Pendidikan Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo
Abstract
This research is concerned with inflectional morphemes found in education
articles of Jakarta Post. The aim of this research is to find out the types of
inflectional morphemes found in education articles of the Jakarta Post. This
research is also to describe the application in teaching writing at tenth grade of
Senior High School.
This research is descriptive research because the data of this research is
collected by classifying inflectional morphemes found in education articles and the
researcher as the key instrument. The researcher found the education articles the
Jakarta Post, selected the education articles, read the education articles, identified
the inflectional morphemes, and gave code of each data. In analyzing the data, the
researcher classified the types of inflectional morphemes, described how to apply
the inflectional morphemes in teaching writing, and makes a conclusion of the
finding and discussion.
The result of this research showed that there are 1152 inflectional
morphemes found in education articles of The Jakarta Post published on March
2019. Based on the types of inflectional morphemes, there are eight types. They are
56 3rd person present tense singular (4.861 %), 61 possessive (5.295 %), 640 plural
(55.556 %), 21 progressive aspect (1.823 %), 150 past tense (13.021 %), 157
perfective aspect (13.628 %), 50 comparative form of adjective (4.340 %), and 17
superlative form of adjective (1.476 %). The type of inflectional morphemes that is
most used in newspaper is plural because the language feature of news item is noun.
This research can be applied in teaching writing at Senior High School by using
past tense and perfect tense in recount text. The students can learn inflectional
morphemes to develop their English mastery especially in writing competence.