In this post I would like to continue sharing about an International Journal. The title of the Journal is THE ERROR ANALYSIS OF DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN EFL’S ENGLISH NARRATIVE COMPOSITION. Actually this post is just a repetition task. The difference is only the chosen Journal, but this Journal still has relationship with the previous Journal.

Introduction.

There are many aspects of grammar that should be mastered by learners which can cause some errors in learning English. Thus, the study of the language involved the learners in appraisal of all of the following levels of the expression: language phonology which studies about sounds, morphology which studies about meaningful combination of sounds, lexis which examines about words, syntax which investigates about meaningful combination of words, semantic which studies about meaning and discourse which studies about how syntax is combined.

There are two kinds of morphology; they are derivational and inflectional morphology. Derivational morphology discusses about the morphemes can be used to form new words. It also studies the principles governing the construction of new words, without reference to the specific grammatical role a word might play in a sentence. Inflectional morphology occurs with nouns, pronouns and verbs. It also studies the way in which words vary (or “inflect”) in order to express grammatical contrasts in sentence.

Literature Review

The term morphology takes its origin from morph which means form, shape, etc. and ology which involves the study of something. August Schleicher, a German linguist, named morphology as a sub-discipline of linguistics in 1859 for the first time.
Aronoff, (2011, p. 2) stated that morphology referred to the mental system involved in word formation or to the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure and how they are formed. Kolenchery (2015) written that morphology sold with the construction of words. Knowing, knowingly and unknowingly are kinds of derivational morphology. The base word is understood, and it is added to morphemes –ing, -ly and un-. Morphemes are related to morphology as they are attached to the words to change the meaning of the words.
Morphological processes fulfill two primary purposes, they are (1). To create new words in a language; and (2). To modify existing words. Morphology is the study of word formation.

Methodology

Descriptive method was used to do the research. There are three types of descriptive methods: observation, case study and survey designs. Observational method as a part of descriptive method was used to take the data for this study.
Descriptive method was used as (Best, 1974) explained that descriptive method is the method which tries to give the explanation about the symptoms relating with the recent situation. It consists on the effort of giving the note, the analysis and the interpretation of the recent symptoms which have the characteristics as follows: try to give the fact, straight to the problem and the recent variables aren’t manipulated by the researcher.