ERRORS ON WORDS FORMATION MADE BY THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF KUTAI KARTANEGARA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This study is aimed to describe the students’ errors on words formation. Words formation is one of the important aspects in vocabulary because the students can know how to create new words through kinds of processes, by using compounding, blending, clipping,
acronyms, affixes, etc. This study used descriptive qualitative and quantitative analyses, focusing on the errors on word formations made by the students. This study assigned 10 students as the subject of the study. Data of this study were the students’ answers in
vocabulary test about word formations using blending, clipping, and affixation processes. Data were analyzed according to the kinds of errors occurred: omission error, addition error, and misformation error. After that the researcher would find the rate percentages for each error made by the students. This study revealed that almost all students made errors on word formations. In all process of word formations the students made errors. The kinds of errors made by the students were omission, addition, and misformation. Most students made misformation error and there were many errors happened in affixation process. It was supposed that the students made errors on word formations because of their lack knowledge of word formations even though these material had been studied before.
Keywords: errors, analysis, word formation, blending, clipping, affixation.