A Case Study on Indonesia EFL Learners Acquisition of Inflectional Morpheme –S in the Third Person Singular Present
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.014How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- EFL, Learners Acquisition, Inflectional Morpheme
- Abstract
Inflectional morpheme – s in the third person singular present becomes one of the most problematic morphemes that the L2 learners encounter while learning English. In spite of this fact, learners continued learning this bound morpheme in the initial phases of learning English no matter what their mother tongue is. The current investigation examined the factors, whether mother tongue interference or overgeneration, that Indonesia EFL learners encounter while acquiring the bound morpheme – s in the third person singular present. The participants were 30 Indonesia – speaking seventh grade middle school students who aged 12 and 13 years old. They comprised of 15 males and 15 females and have been studying at public school, SMPN 1 Galis – Pamekasan. Two instruments were used in this investigation, which were written and spoken outputs of the students in the form of presentation tasks. Pedagogical activities were prepared cautiously to guide the students to utilize every single personal pronoun. Spoken part of the activities was documented electronically and all occurrences of incorrect use of third person singular present morpheme – s calculated and so did written activities. The results suggest that the errors performed by students were largely by virtue of mother tongue interference and overgeneration was not much observed.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - R. Agus Budiharto AU - Yanti Linarsih AU - Sri Widjajanti AU - Evha Nazalatus PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/21 TI - A Case Study on Indonesia EFL Learners Acquisition of Inflectional Morpheme –S in the Third Person Singular Present BT - Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 74 EP - 79 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.014 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.014 ID - Budiharto2021 ER -