Morphological Process in Students’ Recount TextatEnglish Department of FKIPUHNPematangsiantar

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate students’morphological awareness on Students’ vocabulary achievement at English department FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar. The writer usedsome theoriescollaborated by someexperts, they areChang et al., (2005),Brinton, Laurel J, et al(2010) & Carstairs-McCarty (2002), National (1990)and Antem (2005).The writerusedqualitative method. Ten of the third semester students were subject and object was morphological awareness, vocabulary achievement, and recount pragraph. The data was taken from test of writing I. The data wasabout the tragic events in the pastthat involved types of morphological awareness and used words more than 1000 words. The data analyses and interpretation showed that dominant types of morphological awareness produced by the students were inflectional morphemes and thevocabulary achievement that the students possessed in writing recount paragraph was still lack of vocabulary. It meant that they were in low frequency level.