Desy Cristina, Simbolon and Dewi, Murni and Gatot, Subroto (2020) AN ANALYSIS OF AFFIXATION ERROR IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY FIFTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITAS MARITIM RAJA ALI HAJI. S1 thesis, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji.

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Abstract

This research aims at finding out the types of affixation error and the most dominant type of affixation error made by the students The students in Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji, make errors when they writing affixation. The students are less of idea because they cannot understand clearly the function of the word and difficult when arrange the sentence because the vocab is lack so students need a lot of vocabulary. Napa (1991:6) stated that vocabulary is one of the components of language and that no language existed without words. Affixation is a general terms for bound morphemes that are being added to roots or bases. According to Manova (2014) Affixation is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme, an affix, is attached to a morphological base. . Affixation occurs as the result of combination between bound morpheme with the stem. A bound morpheme is a dependent morpheme. Its means that a bound morpheme cannot stand by it self because it has to be attached with a free morpheme. The researcher limits the two primary types of affixes: Prefixes and Suffixes. In analyzing the affixation errors made by the students, it uses four types of errors proposed by Dulay (1982) such as omission, addition errors, misformation errors and misordering errors. In this research, researcher will use the descriptive qualitative design. It is used to collect, analyze, and interpret the primary data and supporting data in as much detail as possible to draw conclusion. The result of the study shows that from 30 essay writing, there were 144 affixes that consist of derivational prefixes, derivational suffixes and inflectional suffixes. From this research prefixes errors consisted of 36 errors or 58.06. number prefixes, all the errors consisted of 14 errors or 22.59%. Moreover Relationship prefixes consisted of 12 errors or 19.35 %. Suffixes errors happened in adjective suffixes which consisted of 28 errors or 34.15 % . Next noun suffixes is consisted of 21 errors or 25.60 %. Next verb suffixes consisted of 20 errors or 24.40 %. Moreover adverb suffixes consisted of 13 errors or 15.58%

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