A THOROUGH STUDY ON A CHILD LEARNING HER FIRST LANGUAGE: A Case Study on a Three-Year Old Child

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suwandi Suwandi
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
First Language ◽  
Language Needs ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Child Learning

Abstract ?é?á This paper discusses mainly on?é?á the development of the language acquisition of the three year old child. The object of the study happens to be the writer?óÔé¼Ôäós granddaughter. So he could observe her totally, day by day for three years to see how her?é?á language acquisition developed. He recorded the produced sounds, words and sentences whether they are meaningful or not in order to see how she finally could form?é?á meaningful utterances. The fact that learning a first language needs much energy, time and endless effort; since she was?é?á a baby, the environment (the parents, grandparents, aunts etc) has been trying to stimulate her to talk. The response is astounding; she seems to understand what the adults have been communicating. Gradually, when she is three years old she can produce meaningful words, or utterances that can be understood by the adults and even can be used for communication. ?é?áTherefore, in this paper, the writer will reveal the process of how a child learns her mother tongue and show the progress of the language acquisition starting from the first cry until the ability to produce meaningful utterances. ?é?á

Subject realization in the syntactic development of a bilingual child

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Juan-Garau ◽  
Carmen Pérez-Vidal
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Word Order ◽  
First Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
First Language Acquisition ◽  
Null Subject ◽  
Syntactic Development

The present article reports on the findings of a case study of bilingual first language acquisition in Catalan and English. It first presents a general overview of a child's syntactic development from the age of 1;3 to 4;2 and then focuses on the question of subject realization in the two contrasting languages he is acquiring simultaneously. In this case, Catalan is a null subject language in opposition to the overt subject properties of English. Such data allow us to provide evidence on a key issue in bilingual acquisition research: the question of language separation in the early stages of acquisition. The data available suggest the absence of any major influence of one language on the other. In other words, our subject seems to be acquiring word order patterns which are different in the two adult systems in a language-dependent manner from the beginning of his production in both languages.

scholarly journals FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF A THREE YEARS OLD CHILD: AN ANALYSIS OF PHONOLOGICAL COMPONENT (A CASE STUDY)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-154
Author(s):  
Hilma Safitri ◽  
M. Nur Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
First Language ◽  
First Language Acquisition ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Biological Development ◽  
Consonant Sounds ◽  
Do So

The process of language acquisition undergone by each child in the world is more and less similar. This is because language is universal in which it is acquired through all language components namely phonology, semantics, and pragmatics. The component of phonology is more related to human neuro-biology. The process of sound produced is genetic and human biological development is not similar. Hence, the language development of human beings is not exactly the same. This paper explores first language acquisition particularly on the phonological component of a three years old child named Andi. The data is the transcripts of dialog taken from causal chit chats with the participant. A qualitative method is used to analyze the data. The findings reveal that the participant acquired vocal sounds of /a/, /i/, /u/, /o/, /e/ and consonant sounds of /p/, /b/, /m/, /t/ more dominant compared to others. He never produced /k/ consonant, fricative [s] and [j]. However, he produced nasal consonants of [m], [n], and [ɳ]. The participant also substituted omitted a few sounds. This might happen because his speech articulation has not developed well yet or genetic factor does not allow him to do so.

scholarly journals First Language Acquisition, Developmental Errors in Vocabulary: A Case Study of a Four -Year- Old Iranian Child

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nastaran Sadeghi ◽  
Mohammad Hashamdar
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
First Language ◽  
First Language Acquisition ◽  
Iranian Child ◽  
Interval Recording ◽  
Do So

This case study aims to discover the process of first language acquisition of a 4–year-old Iranian child. The focus of the research is on developmental errors the child has created in his language development, i.e. the words which are not correct. To do so, the researcher, during four months, observed and recorded the subject's produced strange words. The recording was done by two ways, Interval recording strategy and event sampling.Developmental errors or strange words are part of the learning process. These words are created due to different reasons. The research shows that during four months and in thirty three records, eleven strange words and expressions were produced. These eleven errors were investigated in this study in details. A table was presented by the researcher in which these errors were thoroughly described.

scholarly journals Przyswajanie języka pierwszego - imitacja czy wrodzony dar? Analiza na podstawie wybranych teorii akwizycji języka ojczystego oraz podstawowych systemów językowych

Adeptus ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 6-25
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Włodarska
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Physical Mechanism ◽  
Nursery School ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
First Language ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
First Language Acquisition ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Basic Language

First language acquisition – imitation or innate gift? Analysis based on selected theories of first language acquisition and basic language systemsThis article deals with a surprising phenomenon typical only for human beings – first language acquisition. Its aim is to answer the question as stated in the title. The author, an English teacher working in a nursery school, looks for the answer using references to theories connected with this topic, and in addition, takes into consideration the speech of children she is in charge of. In order to demonstrate the sophisticated nature of human language, the author refers to several definitions of this term. She presents the term ‘mother tongue’ and analyses the ways of acquiring its phonetic, phonological, morphological and syntactic systems by children. She also gives numerous examples of the most common mistakes found in their speech, taken from Polish and English languages. Furthermore, three major theories regarding first language acquisition, presenting the approach of Piaget, Chomsky and Skinner to this phenomenon, are described in the article. The author reaches the conclusion that first language acquisition is a mixture of imitation and innate gift. The role of the physical mechanism enabling a human being to produce speech and that of contact with the language of a child’s parents merits emphasizing also. The result of these factors is the possibility of language acquisition.

First-Language Acquisition of Morphology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorit Ravid
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
First Language ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Language Diversity ◽  
First Language Acquisition ◽  
Cognitive Changes ◽  
Ambient Language ◽  
Adolescents And Adults

First-language acquisition of morphology refers to the process whereby native speakers gain full and automatic command of the inflectional and derivational machinery of their mother tongue. Despite language diversity, evidence shows that morphological acquisition follows a shared path in development in evolving from semantically and structurally simplex and non-productive to more complex and productive. The emergence and consolidation of the central morphological systems in a language typically take place between the ages of two and six years, while mature command of all systems and subsystems can take up to 10 more years, and is mediated by the consolidation of literacy skills. Morphological learning in both inflection and derivation is always interwoven with lexical growth, and derivational acquisition is highly dependent on the development of a large and coherent lexicon. Three critical factors platform the acquisition of morphology. One factor is the input patterns in the ambient language, including various types of frequency. Input provides the context for children to pay attention to morphological markers as meaningful cues to caregivers’ intentions in interactive sociopragmatic settings of joint attention. A second factor is language typology, given that languages differ in the amount of word-internal information they package in words. The “typological impact” in morphology directs children to the ways pertinent conceptual and structural information is encoded in morphological structures. It is thus responsible for great differences among languages in the timing and pace of learning morphological categories such as passive verbs. Finally, development itself is a central mechanism that drives morphological acquisition from emergence to productivity in three senses: as the filtering device that enables the break into the morphological system, in providing the span of time necessary for the consolidation of morphological systems in children, and in hosting the cognitive changes that usher in mature morphological systems in both speech and writing in adolescents and adults.

scholarly journals The Relationship of Indonesian Language Learning with the Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatik Sri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
First Language ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Indonesian language learning can be related to the environment, the environment becomes one of the components that influence the learning process. This can be related to language. Language is a communication tool that humans can acquire from birth. Suardi (et al, 2019) said that the mastery of a language by a child begins with the acquisition of the first language which is often called the mother tongue. Dardjowidjojo (in Suardi et al, 2019) says that language acquisition is a language acquisition process that is carried out by children naturally when they learn their mother tongue. The acquisition of the first language is closely related to the social development of children and the formation of social identity. In line with that, Yogatama (in Suardi et al, 2019) says that learning the first language is one of the overall developments of children to become members of asociety.

CHILDREN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROCESS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Loli Safitri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Development ◽  
First Language ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

This research discusses a case study of children in acquiring their first language at age 18 months old in Bukittinggi. The process deals with some stages namely cooing, babbling, holophrastic, the two-word stage, telegraphic stage, and multiword stage. The purpose of this study is focused on how the children learn the language in the real life. To find out the answer of the problem in this research, the researcher uses the related theories, they are Lyons (1981), Varshney (2003), Chomsky (2009), Bolinger (2002), Gleason (1998), Steinberg (2003), Fromkin (1983), Bolinger (2002) and Steinberg (2003). This research is conducted with descriptive qualitative research where the subject and object is taken from the children at age 18 months old in Bukittinggi. The researcher takes the observed baby named Azka as the subject and gets the data by observation and video recording. After the data had been collected, the researcher finds out that Azka was 18 months old baby who was in holophrastic functions: the one-word utterances stage of language development. Finally, parents’ role is important to develop the children language. The parents should build interaction with their child to know their child’s language development. Besides that, the researcher suggests the parents to say the right pronunciation to the children.

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