A Contrastive Analysis between English and Indonesia in Novel

Abstract

Novel is one of the learning media that can used by teacher and student in order to help the improve their reading knowledge. A contrastive analysis to a compare first language and second language is used in this study in order to find kinds, differences and similarities of English and Indonesian suffixes. The object of the study are the novel English and Indonesian entitled “The Rainbow Troops and Laskar Pelangi” novel by Andrea Hirata and translated by
Angie Kilbane. The study was design in content analysis qualitative research because the object of the study was a novel. Moreover, as the data was in the researcher also conducted the analysis used contrastive analysis to more focus on differences and similarities of English and Indonesian suffixes. The instrument used to collect the data is the form of checklist. Based on the background of the case about, the study is conducted: 1) to analyse the English and Indonesian suffixes. 2) to analyse the process od derived word classes after add the suffixes.The result of this study showed that in term of kinds English and Indonesian suffixes noun (-acne, -ence, -er, -or, - ist, -ian, -tion, -tion, -ness, -ion, -ing, -ment, -ity, -isn, -dom, -ship, -ent, -ary, -ure, -tude, -hood, - eer, -logy, -age, -ant). Verb (-ize/-ise, -ate, -ify, -en) adverb (-ly) and adjective (-al, -ar, -ic,-ical, - able/-ible, -ous, -full, -less, -ish, -ed, -ive, -er, -ate, -ent, -est). Indonesian suffixes there are : noun (-an, -is, -isasi, -isme, -itas, -wan/-wati, -man) verb (-an, -I, -kan). Adjective (-an, -al, -if, - is, -I, -iah). The difference English and Indonesia, English suffixes any adverb (-ly, lovely, politely, wisely, etc). Difference Indonesian and English suffixes that is Indonesian suffix any kinds of nominal there is the example (-an, jutaan, ribuan, ratusan, etc)