Verbification in the writings on English learning area of grade 9 students / [manuscript] Roxanne C. Reyes

Thesis (MALED) BPSU, 2020.

This study investigated the verbification in the writings on English subject of Grade 9 students. The researcher employed descriptive method of research and it used purposive sampling technique. The essays of the Grade 9 students for the third quarter were being subjected for analysis. A total of 101 verbified words from 52 Grade 9 students were analyzed. The Oxford American Dictionary was used to check the existence and definition of each verbified words. The Equivalent Assessment of Nababan (2012) was used to analyze the grammatical functions and effects of each verbified words to the sentences being used in the essays. In light of the findings of the study, the researcher concluded that the three word formation processes exist in the 101 verbified words used in the essays. These are Affixation, Back-formation, and Conversion. Moreover, there are words being verbified which the root words do not exist in the Oxford American Dictionary. Some of these words are online applications and game. Students verbified words not just as part of the social media lexical items, but also in academic setting, like it is part of the new feature of language. The means of expressing is widely becoming the ground of producing new lexicons which has two outcomes in the world of language: to be corrected, or to just be accepted and used as long as people can connect and undesrtand each other.