Avoidance of Negative Prefixes in English

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, language: English, abstract: The main purposes of this study are to investigate whether polytechnic students avoid using negative prefixes towards English language and identify the situation of avoidance behavior. The methodology used in this study is qualitative where 15 respondents were chosen as the sample to do pre- and post-test and answered few interview questions. The results show that there is avoidance of negative prefixes by the students regardless of any races and the avoidance behavior among them happen consciously. Thus, future researchers could do a study on this area with university students who are believed to have higher proficiency level than polytechnic students.