Acquisition of English Adjective as a Foreign Language In Non-speaking English Community of Sixteen-Year-Old Teenagers

ABSTRACT
Julianto Pratama. 2022. ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH ADJECTIVE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN NON-SPEAKING ENGLISH COMMUNITY OF SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD TEENAGERS, supervised by Nasmilah and Abidin Pammu.
This research aims at describing the method or strategy of acquisition of English adjectives used by teenagers aged sixteen-year-old in Awang Tangka Village and classified the types of adjectives that have been acquired by the students.
This study used descriptive qualitative method. The data presented in this research were collected by conducting direct interviews and distributing online questionnaires. After collecting the data, the authors then classify the method or strategy of adjective acquisition. Finally, the authors classify these adjectives according to the types of adjectives acquired by adolescents aged sixteen years.
The study finds that sixteen-year-old teenagers use three general methods in their English adjective acquisition process, namely the acquisition process via the internet (youtube, social media, news, etc.), acquisition through video games, and acquisition through the environment. The writer also found that there were thirteen types of adjectives acquired by the sixteen-year-old teenagers, namely comparative adjective, superlative adjective, predicate adjective, compound adjective, possessive adjective, demonstrative adjective, proper adjective, participal adjective, limiting adjective, descriptive adjective, interrogative adjective. , attributive adjectives, and distributive adjectives.

Keywords: Psycholinguistic, English Adjective Acquisition, Teenagers