Nui’s Unique Process in Learning Language

Mini Research of PSYCOLINGUISTICS

NAME :ALFIATU ROHMAH (113-12-040)NURUL FAJRI (113-12-129)NOFI ZULIyATI NINGSIH (113-12-159)PARAMITHA (113-10)

BIODATA of RESPONDENT (child)

• Her name is Agusti Prabandari Annuri, she is usually called Nui.

• She is 8 years old• She is at 2nd grade IT Nidaul Hikmah of

Elementary School

BIODATA of RESPONDENT (mother)

• Nuri’s Mother, her name is Neti Chasmaliah.

• She is a housewife.

BIODATA of RESPONDENT (teacher)

• Name : Retnoningtyas• She is the second grade class’ guardian of IT

Nidaul Hikmah of Elementary School

Statement of the Problem

1. What is the child first language acquisition?

2. What is the parent’s type of processing first language?

3. What is the second language acquisition?

4. What is the teacher’s type of processing second language?

Review of Related Theories

There are three types of Acquisition Issues :Behaviourist Innatist Interactionist

• Concerned with learning in General

• Important linguistic input from the environment

• Modelling, imitation, practice, reinforcements, and Habit formation

• Concerned with specific aspects of language learning

• Degenerate input from the environment

• Biological program• Special language

learning ability• Universal Grammar• Natural order o

acquisition

• Concerned with social and psychological aspects of language learning

• Meaningful linguistic input from environment

• Child’s pragmatic intention

• Interaction strategies• Interdependence of

cognitive and language development

Methodology

• We use observation and interview.

• We observed and interviewed the mother (Mrs. Neti) on Saturday, April 4, 2015 in her house at Merdeka Street, Blotongan, Salatiga.

• We interviewed the teacher (Mrs. Retno) on Thrusday, April 2, 2015 at Elementary School of IT Nidaul Hikmah, Salatiga.

List of questions (mother)

1. What is the first language that has been taught to your daughter?

2. What is the mother tongue of the mother and father?3. What is the language that usually used in daily

activity?4. What is the second language that your child learnt?5. How do you teach your child of the second language?6. How much you complete your time to your child?7. Do you always accompany her when she has problem

and try to communicate and accomplish it?8. Do you always give the facilitation that is useful for

your child’s development?

List of Question (Teacher)1. What is the language that you use

when you teach the children (Nuri) in the classroom?

2. How is the respond of the children (Nuri) when you teach them/her?

3. Is there any other languages beside those language?

4. How did you teach or applied languages?

5. How about bahasa lesson did you teach? And how to introduce them/her about a new vocabulary?

6. How is the characteristic or type of Nuri?

Result of the research(a. data from the child)

Nui (the call name of the child) has:Nui (the call name of the child) has:•First languageFirst language : : Bahasa and Bahasa and SundaneseSundanese•Second languageSecond language : : English and English and ArabicArabic•NativeNative language language : : BahasaBahasa•The mother tongue is Sundanese The mother tongue is Sundanese and Bahasaand Bahasa

Nui (the call name of the child) has:Nui (the call name of the child) has:•First languageFirst language : : Bahasa and Bahasa and SundaneseSundanese•Second languageSecond language : : English and English and ArabicArabic•NativeNative language language : : BahasaBahasa•The mother tongue is Sundanese The mother tongue is Sundanese and Bahasaand Bahasa

B. Parent’s Type of Proccesing L1• Mother always gives attentions and

complies her daughter’s request.• She also gives freedom to her daughter to

learn about languages or anything but she also has a limitation.

• She teaches the Sundanese step by step to her daughter by practicing to give her praise, take something or command.

• She always pay attention and look at her daughter’s developement and growth.

• Mother always gives attentions and complies her daughter’s request.

• She also gives freedom to her daughter to learn about languages or anything but she also has a limitation.

• She teaches the Sundanese step by step to her daughter by practicing to give her praise, take something or command.

• She always pay attention and look at her daughter’s developement and growth.

Be continued…

• She always tries to communicate with her daughter everyday. So, she knows about her daughter’s problem and helps to accomplish the problem.

• She tries to give the best thing to her daughter when her daughter wants to achieve something, for example when her daughter wants to study reciting the Holy Qur’an well, so she comes the teacher to teach Nui in her house.

• She always tries to communicate with her daughter everyday. So, she knows about her daughter’s problem and helps to accomplish the problem.

• She tries to give the best thing to her daughter when her daughter wants to achieve something, for example when her daughter wants to study reciting the Holy Qur’an well, so she comes the teacher to teach Nui in her house.

c. The child second language acquisition

• Nuri is a smart student, easy to accept the lesson.

• There are many facilities which her mother bought to help her in the language learning process, such as: Disney Film, conversational English book, and asking to use greeting little by little with English Conversation in daily life.

• Nuri is a smart student, easy to accept the lesson.

• There are many facilities which her mother bought to help her in the language learning process, such as: Disney Film, conversational English book, and asking to use greeting little by little with English Conversation in daily life.

D. Teacher’s type of processing L2

Conclusion

• The child first language acquisition is Bahasa and Sundanese, the mother tongue is Sundanese and Bahasa, and her native language is Bahasa.

• The parent’s type of processing L1 is interactionist, like at the her statement that she she lets her child to gain the knowledge through the lets her child to gain the knowledge through the social and psychological aspects of language social and psychological aspects of language learning.learning.

• The child second language acquisition is Arabic and English. She is smart to master the second language and gets many facilities from her family and school.

• The teacher’s type of processing L2 is interactionist. She guides her students step by step She guides her students step by step to study language and teaches to make practice. to study language and teaches to make practice. (Child’s pragmatic intentions)(Child’s pragmatic intentions)

resources

• Goh,Christine C.M and Rita Elain Silver. 2004. Language Acquisition and Development. Singapore: Prentice Hall

• Arifuddin. 2010. Neuropsikolinguistik. Jakarta: Rajawali Pers