Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

Conversational Interaction to Develop the Two-Word Stage of A Child’s Second Language Acquisition

Authors
Vina Nuzulul Fitria, Bachrudin Musthafa
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Vina Nuzulul Fitria
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.311How to use a DOI?
Keywords
conversational interaction; two-word stage; second language acquisition
Abstract

Indonesian children are mostly taught to speak Bahasa Indonesia as their first language (L1) since they were born. However, there is a common tendency nowadays where most of Indonesian parents start to teach their newborn with the thought that the best time to teach their children a second language (L2) is the same time they are learning their first language (L1). Therefore, English becomes a second language (L2) for those children. The purpose of this research is to examine how conversational interaction in a form of daily conversation used by an Indonesian parent support a child’s L2 acquisition at age 18 to 20 months. In addition, the study aims to get insights into how Bahasa Indonesia as the child’s L1 influences the acquisition of English as his L2 through conversational interactions. Designed as a case study, the data for this study were collected by videotaping daily conversation events and were analyzed qualitatively. Results indicate that conversational interaction are instrumental in triggering the child’s language acquisition specifically in the process of two-word pairing stage. The pattern of utterances also appeared during the period of the research.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-749-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.311How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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