Correlation between Morpheme Identification Awareness and Morphological Structure Awareness

58 understanding of the free and bound morpheme. In addition, the knowledge of part of speech is also important especially for the derivations Zang and Koda, 2011. The result of the test showed that the students frequently failed to state the right meaning of a word because of incapability of part of speech change. 2. The Correlation between Vocabulary Size and Morphological Structure Awareness This correlation is based on the assumption that by having higher vocabulary size, a learner can construct a new word from the knowledge he has known. The result of the statistical analysis using Pearson Product Moment showed that p-value 0.03. The result indicated that there was a significant correlation between vocabulary size and morphological structure as p-value 0.001 0,05.. There was also a positive correlation between the variables. Yet the leveldegree of the correlation was moderate r = 0.404. Constructing new word from the elements of the word is not a simple matter. There are some knowledge to know before we actually form the word. Nation 2001 stated that there are at least four steps of constructing a word. The first is to determine the intended meaning of the word. The second is to choose the right morpheme or word to construct. The third is to determine the word order. The last is to give the right punctuation. The morphological structure test doesn’t only require the test takers to write the constructed words, but also considering the previous aspects as the consideration to construct new words. Some data of the test showed that the incapability of determining the right part of speech and word 59 order make them fail to construct the correct words. Studies by Cameron 2001 and also Wu and Zumbo 2008 put emphasize of the importance of part of speech in word formation. The students should be able to determine the kind of words to be used correctly. 3. The Correlation between Morpheme Identification Awareness and Morphological Structure Awareness The correlation is based on the assumption that a learner who has good knowledge in breaking down complex word will have good knowledge of words structure. Thus, a learner may be able to construct new words from the known knowledge. However, the correlation between morpheme identification and morphological structure is low. So there is only a weak low correlation between morpheme identification and morphological structure. There are some factors which may influence the findings. From the table there is p-value 0.023 0,05. That is Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. Thus the hypothesis “There is significant relationship between vocabulary size and morpheme identification” is accepted. By looking at the table r = 0.279 show us that the degree of the correlation is low. In addition, the correlation of the variable is positive meaning that the increase of the morpheme identification is in line with the increase of the morphological structure. It is questionable to see that the correlation between morpheme identification and morphological structure is low. We may easily assume that the ability to breakdown the complex words will be in line with the ability to construct the morphemes into new words. However the result showed us that the