Using Alternative Media in Promoting Students’ Morphological Competence in Classroom

Abstract

As one of the linguistic branches, Morphology has become one of the subjects that is definitely learned by English Department students. In terms of vocabulary and grammar, Morphology mostly concerns and supports language elements and enhances students’ linguistics or morphological competence. The purpose of this research is to determine how morphological awareness plays important role in students’ word structure comprehension which is useful to improve students’ vocabulary by knowing the word structure itself such as viewing affixes in words. As the descriptive method, it will be more concerned with investigating some strategies and alternative media in teaching Morphology in the classroom to English Department Students by viewing the needs and situations in the classroom. Some strategies that can be used as alternative teaching morphology are using video in explaining material instead of thick books, using card media in teaching words containing words and pictures, using the creative game to show some morphological process, showing some word lists that as the real example of English Morphology that is applied in the real daily life and giving quizzes. These strategies in using alternative media hopefully can attract the learners to understanding Morphological phenomena and finally can improve their ability in writing, speaking, listening, and reading skills in English.