The effect of teaching morphological analysis on the students' reading comprehension achievement

Abstract

This research was aimed to finding out the effect of teaching morphological analysis on the students’ reading comprehension achievement and investigating the problems faced by them in morphological analysis. There were 41 Students of thirt semester of English Department of FKIP Universitas Islam Lamongan who were taught morphological analysis. To collect the data, the researcher administered morphological analysis test and reading comprehension test; observation; and interview. The results indicated there was a positive effect of teaching morphological analysis on the students’ reading comprehension achievement. That could be seen from the significant increase of the mean score of morphological analysis test and reading comprehension test, 62.50 to 77.12 and 66.85 to 78.35. Furthermore, the observation and interview results indicated the students faced difficulties in determining the roots and their meanings and classifying words into part of speech. Thus, teaching morphological analysis could be recommended as an element to teach in English reading comprehension class.

Keywords: Morphological Analysis; Morphology Teaching; Reading Comprehension