The mastery of remuneration is a problem for the students of the Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (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, analyze and discuss the weaknesses of the mastery of affixes in the writing of Malay language essays by SJKT students in the Kuala Selangor district. 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 title selected from the collection of UPSR questions in 2019. The researcher used qualitative methods in analyzing the study data. The researcher examines the weaknesses in terms of the selection of the prefix meN- in the respondents' essays. From the results of the study, the researcher hopes to help students, language teachers, schools and the Malaysian Ministry of Education to overcome students' weaknesses in the mastery of recitation and improve the performance of the Final Academic Session (UASA) results in the writing section. The researcher applied Corder's Theory of Analysis (1981) which focuses on the mistakes of non-native Malay speakers. The findings of the study show that the writing of essays in the aspect of prefixing meN- is at a weak level. This affects the quality of students' essays. Implications of the study, this study is authoritative to be useful information about the mastery of affixes in Malay essay writing to all SJKT students and teachers throughout Malaysia.
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