Abstract:
This study deals with the students’ morphological awareness in using derivational
morphemes, the objectives of this study are to find out the students awareness in
identifying derivational morpheme and to investigate the students ability to break
down the words into morpheme. The research used descriptive qualitative method.
The data was taken from the news article of The Jakarta Post entitled
Christchurch Muslim struggle shock, fear, New Zealand by doing interview
among UMSU students in the 8th semester of English Department as the
informants. Based on the result of derivational morphemes in the news article of
The Jakarta Post entitled Christchurch Muslim struggle shock, fear, New Zealand,
there were 18 derivational morphemes that had to identified and segmented or
broke down by the informants to approved their morphological awareness in using
derivational morphemes
