SUFFIX ANALYSIS ON THE EFL STUDENTS’ WRITING TEXT

Abstract

Writing is an activity that everyone often does. Especially for students, writing activities are never separated from them, such as doing assignments, writing articles, and writing descriptive text. Writing activities in English are different from the first language of students learning English as a foreign language. In writing, there is a term suffix. The suffix is an affix that is attached at the end of a stem word. A suffix is always present in every sentence, and these two things are related because writing uses structure and many types of text, one of which contains a suffix. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the use of suffixes in the written texts of EFL students. The data collection method uses qualitative methods, namely by collecting writing assignments from EFL students. The analysis shows the diversity of suffix uses in their written texts which shows the number of suffixes often used.