A STUDY ON LANGUAGE PRODUCTION OF 4 YEAR OLD CHILDREN GROWING UP IN INDONESIAN AND JAVANESE ENVIRONMENT
Daftar Isi:
- This research is a study of language production by four-year-old children. Language production is a person's ability to express his own thoughts through vocal instruments and through writing. In producing language, children can experience a mixture of languages including three four-year-old children who participated in this study. They are speakers of Indonesian and Javanese in their daily lives. They acquire both languages from their parents and the environment. Thus, this qualitative research aims to find out how four-year-old children produce their first language and how their first language was mixed in language production. From the results of the study, the writer found similarities between the theory and the results of research that had been done, that four-year-olds in this study were at the stage of obtaining phonology, grammar and pragmatics. As in phonological competence, participants tend to have difficulty using vibrating sounds [r] (approximant - alveolar palato) changed with [l] (lateral-alveolar). In grammar competence, the four-year-old children under this study have been able to use prefixes and suffixes While in pragmatics competence, participants were still mistaken in using pronouns which should be governed by social rules or etiquette (toto kromo). In addition, in language production children under this study also tend to mix the languages (in this case the participants use Indonesian and Javanese) both intra-centric and internal transitions that are influenced by the environment in which they live