this research the writer hopes to more understand blocking process and its application in using good English in daily activity.
F. Research Methodology 1. Method
This research uses descriptive qualitative method, as Taliziduhu Ndraha explained in his book “Research Teori metodologi administrasi”, that is finding
knowledge related to the object of this research, trying to describe the object of the research, finding and analyzing the data needed to answer the research
question
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. Furthermore, the writer applies this method in this research by finding knowledge related to the object of this research, trying to describe the existence of
blocking in English words, and finding the data that show the existence of blocking in English. In addition, in this research, the writer uses some English
words blocked in their productivity process affixation as the data to be analyzed in order to explain why blocking process occurs in English.
2. Technique of Data Collection
There are some steps conducted in technique of data analysis of this research. Firstly, the writer collected randomly words blocked in their affixation
as the data, and the writer got about 346 words in this step. Furthermore, in this research, the writer collected the words from Longman Dictionary of
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Taliziduhu Ndraha, Research Teori metodologi administrasi, Jakarta: PT Bina Aksara, 1992, p. 160
Contemporary English new edition
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. The writer chose this dictionary because this dictionary is well known as complete dictionary and one of the best English
dictionaries in the world. Secondly, from those words, the writer selected only several words that are related to Katamba’s blocking theory in order to get
representative data for this research. It is because Katamba’s theory that is related to blocking process in English is the main theory used by the writer to analyze
those words. Thus, the writer selected only several words that their affixation is blocked and the process of the blocking can be found in Katamba’s blocking
theory, and in this step, the writer got only 175 words. In addition, in this step, the writer collected some information of those words that helps the writer in
describing blocking process based on Katamba’s theory, such as meaning, phonetic transcription, class of words, and origin of words. The writer took all of
the information from Longman dictionary, but for information the origin of words, the writer took the information from Encarta Dictionary. That is because
the information of the origin of words is not available in Longman Dictionaries. After the writer had got the representative data for this research, the writer
analyzed the data by using Katamba’s blocking theory.
3. Technique of Data Analysis
In the analysis process, based on Katamba’s blocking theory, the writer sorted the data the words into three categories of blocking process. They were
blocked words in their affixation because of phonological factor, blocked words in
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Longman Group UK, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English new edition, Great Britain: Richard Clay Ltd, 2003
their affixation because of morphological factor, and blocked words in their affixation because semantic factor. Lastly, the writer analyzed them based on their
categories by using Katamba’ blocking theory.
4. Research Instrument
