Compensation Mastery of Initial Compensation Men-And Weaknesses of Students Around Kuala Selangor

The mastery of remuneration is a problem for the students of National Type Tamil School (SJKT) in the Kuala Selangor district so that it is difficult to get good results in essay writing. Thus, there was a discrepancy between the Kuala Selangor district SJKT and the Language Unit, Kuala Selangor District Education Office. This study aims to achieve the following objective, which is to identify the level of mastery of the prefix Men- in the writing of SJKT students' essays around the Kuala Selangor district and summarize the errors of the prefix meN- to improve the effectiveness of learning Bahasa Melayu as a second language. This study was conducted in 10 SJKT in the Kuala Selangor district and was limited to 140 5th grade students randomly in each school. The instrument used is an essay selected from the collection of UPSR questions in 2019. Qualitative methods are used in the analysis of research data to analyze the weaknesses in terms of the selection of the prefix meN- in the essays of respondents based on Corder's Analysis Theory (1981) which focuses on the errors of non-native speakers of the Malay language. The findings of the study show that the use of the prefix meN- in essay writing is at a weak level which affects the quality of students' essay writing. The implication of this study is that it will be useful information about the mastery of grammar in Malay essay writing for all SJKT students and teachers throughout Malaysia. The results of this study are expected to help students, language teachers, schools and the Malaysian Ministry of Education to overcome students' weaknesses in the mastery of grammar and improve the performance of the Final Academic Session Test (UASA) results in the writing section.