By:M. Anas Sofyan 113 12 003

Fadlilatu Lathifah 113 12 011Imam Tri Wibowo 113 12 087

Kholilah 113 12 146

Raya,One of Interactionist Child

TypeA Psycholinguistics Mini

Research

Child’s Name : Vina Deska Raya Zamroni Age : 5 years old Grade : TK A, ‘Aisiyah Aba 3, Salatiga

Parents Father : Zamroni Age : 35 years old Profession : Police officer Daily Language : Javanese & Bahasa Indonesia

Mother : Alfiatu Age : 34 years old Profession : Household wife Daily Language : Javanese & Bahasa Indonesia

Teacher Name : Imam Tri Wibowo Age : 21 years old Laguage use in School: Bahasa Indonesia

RESPONDENTS

1. Observation2. Interview

Schedule:

Observation: Thursday, 26th March, 2015 Location : Jalan Jakfar Shodiq, Salatiga

Interview 1 : Thursday, 1st April, 2015 Location : Respondent’s home (Jalan Jakfar Shodiq

RT/RW: 3/3, Salatiga)

Interview 2: Saturday, 4th April, 2015 Location : Respondent’s home (Jalan Jakfar Shodiq

RT/RW: 3/3, Salatiga)

Reasearch Methodology

1. What is the child’s first language acquisition?

2. What is parent’s type of first language acquisition process?

3. What is the child’s second language acquisition?

4. What is teacher’s type of second language acquisition process?

Statement Of The Problem

1. To know the child’s first language acquisition.

2. To know the parent’s type of first language acquisition process.

3. To know the child’s second language acquisition.

4. To know the teacher’s type of second language acquisition process.

Purposes

Vina Deska Raya ZamroniA couple of Zamroni (35) who works as a police officer and Alfiatu (34), as housewife has given birth to their second child named Vina Deska Raya Zamroni (5) or commonly known as Raya. They live in Jl. Jakfar Shodiq RT/RW 3/3 Salatiga. Raya and her Parents

Raya is student in kindergarten ‘Aisiyah Aba 3 Salatiga precisely at the level of class A. Raya’s father and mother are accustom Raya to using Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese language in the house. Bahasa Indonesia is the first language that introduce to Raya then Javanese because this Family ever lived in Palangkaraya, so it makes Raya has two native languages that are Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese.

The role of parents who always accompany Raya while studying and the environment as well as playmates Raya friendly and fun make her a figure of a little girl whose happy, active, communicative, and including children extrovert. One of Raya’s teacher, Mr. Imam Tri Wibowo claimed that Raya is also known as an active student, agile, and wery like darwing and reading story book at school. In daily interaction in her neighborhood Raya familiarized using the Javanese and Bahasa Indonesia. In schools, Raya with more emphasis using Bahasa Indonesia.

About Raya

The main features of the three models can be seem in the following table (Goh, 2004: 25)

This model is closely related to Vygotsky’s Zone Proximal Development (ZPD) which is defined as the distance between a child’s state of cognitive capacity and the level of potential development. In other words, it is what the child can manage on his/her own compared with what they can only manage with assistance from adults. (Goh, 2004: 17-22)

The Interactionist Model

Raya’s LA. 1 and Her Parent’s LA 1 Type process

Based on our observations we can conclude that Raya’s first language acquisition is Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese language. in this case Raya’s parents are including the type of interactionist parents. This is seen in terms of "the importance of communicative context".

Raya’s parents who always apply the importance of communicating with children. In this case as an example: when Raya ask anything to her parents with her own language, and they will always answered with logical and reasonable. Raya is also in constant communication with his parents when she has difficulty in learning at school or problems she faced at school.

Raya’s LA. 1 and Her Parent’s LA 1 Type process

Because Raya’s parents are the Java native people, but ever lived for several years in Palangkaraya, it makes her parents to use Bahasa Indonesia to communicate with their children. In this case Raya doesn’t find any difficulties to adjust in using Javanese language that is used for communication by her parents in their daily communication because Raya’s environment also uses Javanese language and it is included in environment-friendly classified and because its condition it make Raya absorb the language easily.

Raya’s learning accompanied by her mother

Raya and her friends

Interactionist model is closely related to the views of sociolinguistics and language use for communication. Second language acquisition for adolescents (over 20+ years) pays attention to the interaction between second language learners and native speakers. Preliminary studies of this interaction was largely focused on the comprehensible input (meaning) which was then related to innatist models. However, some other researchers argued that learning process covers not only understanding (comprehensible input) but also communication (language use). Thus, the ideal learning situation is combination of both factors. Such a situation is often connected to the linguistic environment – the way(s) that language is used, with and around the learner. The research has tried to explore possible roles for input, negotiation, output and interactional feedback in second language learning. The implications of Interactionist model can be seen in the practice of Communicative Language Teaching Approaches (CLTAs) which cover various topics or activities such as functional-notional, thematic, content-based, task-based, etc. (Goh, 2004: 41-42)

Interactionism and SLA

Basic Theories and Models for SLA

As a Raya’s teacher, Mr. Imam using CLTAs to improve Raya’s language skill. He was not only use one-way communication with Raya but also invite Kingdom to play an active role in communicating. So there is a kind of reciprocal between Mr. Imam and Raya. Mr. Imam also not solely use Bahasa Indonesia but but sometimes he also use Javanese language to make it more easily to understood by Raya.

Raya’s SLA and her Teacher’s SLA type process

1. There 3 models in LA. 1 and LA. 2: behaviorist, innatist, interactionist.

2. Raya’s parents using interactionist model to develop her language acquisition.

3. Raya’s first language acquisition is Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese language.

4. Raya’s teacher also using interactionist model to develop her SLA (second language Acquisition)

5. Raya’s SLA is Bahasa Indonesia.6. It is very important to accompanying the children’s

language development because there are many factors that can be absorb by children in very young age. It will create her characters in the future. Remember that environment the strong factor that can influence more.

Conclusion

Goh, Christine C.M. & R.E. Silver. (2004). Language Acquisition and Development. Singapore: Longman

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