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The English inflectional suffixes used by efl young learners in their writing

The present study was conducted to find out the English inflectional suffixes of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) young learners. This study was aimed to investigate the types of English inflectional suffixes mostly used, both correctly and incorrectly, by the students. Besides, the writer also try to find the error category involved and its frequency. The writer used the relevant theory proposed by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1972) as her main review of related literature. This research was a qualitative research. The writer got the data from written work of the 3rd grade-junior high students on the given test. She found that (-`s) `possessive? was the most frequent of English inflectional suffixes used correctly while (-ed2) `past participle? was the most frequent of English inflectional suffixes that is incorrectly used. Also, she found out that misformation is the error category that occurring most.

Creator(s)
  • (11403014) OLIVIA TEDJOWAHYUDI
Contributor(s)
  • MAS MOELJONO → Advisor 1
  • Josefa Juniarti Mardijono → Examination Committee 1
Publisher
Universitas Kristen Petra; 2007
Language
English
Category
s1 – Undergraduate Thesis
Sub Category
Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis
Source
Undergraduate Thesis No.02011655/ING/2007; Olivia (11403014)
Subject(s)
  • ENGLISH LANGUAGE-SUFFIXES AND PREFIXES
  • LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES-GRAMMARS
  • ENGLISH LANGUAGE-WORD FORMATION
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