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SKRIPSI AN ANALYSIS OF DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES IN TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE WRITING AT MAN 5 SLEMAN
Derivation is an important process of word formation that allows words to be formed by adding prefixes or suffixes to existing words. Students who use derivational morphemes can form different word classes, such as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, thereby enriching their vocabulary. Derivational morphemes are correlated with narrative text, and when writing narrative text, students should have mastered the vocabulary to describe characters, actions, and events. This study analyzes the use of derivational morphemes in students' writing, particularly in the narrative writing of tenth-grade students at MAN 5 Sleman in the school year 2025/2026. Based on the writer's observation, the students have faced several problems in writing, which are that they have limited vocabulary, they are not fully aware of word formation, and they still make errors in grammar and word choice. Given that derivational morphemes are important in word formation, analyzing their use can provide insights into vocabulary use in students’ narrative writing. With this consideration, the writer has the aim to analyze how derivational morphemes are used in each generic structure of students’ narrative writing and to find out the dominant type of derivational morphemes in each generic structure of students’ narrative writing. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative, with the tenthgrade students in class D as the sample. The data used in this study are the narrative texts written by the students. The results show that, based on 27 students’ narrative writing, only 25 students use derivational morphemes in their writing. In their narrative writing, the writer found that students used the types of derivational morphemes, which are derivational morphemes that change the word class, and derivational morphemes that do not change the word class, with a total of 158 occurrences. Most of the students used derivational morphemes that change the word class in each generic structure. It can be concluded that students in writing narrative text used both types of derivational morphemes, with derivational morphemes that change the word class being the dominant type found across the generic structures of narrative text. This showed the importance of improving students’ understanding of word formation to support vocabulary development and enhance their grammar and word choice when writing narratives. Thus, the writer suggests that the teacher and the students should gain a better understanding of derivational morphemes in order to expand vocabulary and improve writing skills.
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