The Contribution of Word Formation Process in Slang Words for Teaching English
Keywords:
Word formation process, slang word, covid-19 pandemicAbstract
This study has the aims to find the kind of word formation process that used in new appeared slang words, the most frequent type of word formation process that used in new appeared slang word, and the contribution learning word formation process to English teaching. This thesis methodology was the qualitative method which was relying on verbal data and the data had been explained descriptively. The researcher took the data randomly from websites DailyMail, Thony Thorne, and Dictionary.com until got enough data. This thesis was using word formation process theory by George Yule in analyzing how the slang words were created. The researcher also used an online dictionary named Urban Dictionary to translate it and social media Twitter to find the example of slang word that were used. There were 6 types of word formation processes found such as blending, compounding, clipping, hypocorism, initialization, and multiple processes. Blending was a type of word formation process which was most common used in forming slang words. Next, learning word formation process can give the contribution to English teaching because it’s good for vocabulary mastery. Hence, it helps to increase learner’s writing and reading ability.
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