The Use of Suffixes in writing narrative text by thai students in junior high school

Kamariyah Sama. 2022. The Use of Suffixes in Essay Writing Narrative Text by Thai Students in Junior High School Thesis. English Education Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Jember. Advisor: (1) Dr. Tanzil Huda, M.Pd (2) Muhlisin Rasuki, M.Pd.,M.A.,Ed.D

Key Word: Writing, Suffixes,NarrativeText.

Students commonly find it difficult to write narrative text. Especially in using suffixes during compose the text. The purpose of this study was to find out how students use suffixes in writing narrative text. The information gathered from the result was summarized using a qualitative method. 12 students from Tarbiatulwatan Mulniti 8th grade participated in this study. These students have studied narrative text . The observation was done by analyzing students writing task to see how they wrote the use of suffixes in generate narrative text. Additionally, the researcherobserved the students writing task to determine the how students use suffixes. Interlingual and intralingual intereference are two indicators used in the interview. The findings indicated that students’ writing narrative text the suffixes that most students’ used are inflectional suffix such as -ed to explain past form of verb, -s/es to compose noun from singular to plural, -est to compose adjective to superlative adjective. Some mistakes that was found only from students’ spelling, few of them did not change word that ended with “y” into “i”. Only few Derivational suffix that students’ used in writing narrative text, such as the suffix -ly that change the verb to adverb.