Morphological Awareness in Task Completion and Text Processing

The objectives of this study were to investigate the way of how morphological
awareness tasks completion relates to morphological awareness in text processing
and to find out the reason why the relation occurs the way it does. This study was
conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The participants were the
students grade 8 of SMP Budi Murni Medan which consists of 25 students. This
study revealed that there is different consistency between Text Processing
Awareness and Completion Task for derivational morpheme and inflectional
morphology. It was concluded that completion task is suitable for inflectional
morpheme while for derivational morpheme it does not totally measure
awareness, most of them measure ability to produce word. Furthermore, judgment
task is the simplest of three tasks that measure the students’ awareness about
morphological complex words. Some of the students have less awareness due to
lack of vocabulary knowledge and the high frequency of words given.