Analysis on the Importance of Mother Tongue in Early Childhood
- DOI
- 10.2991/icece-16.2017.33How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- mother tongue, the role of mother tongue
- Abstract
The number of population movements, cross-marriages, and current globalization cause the use of vernacular or local language as mother tongue diminishes. In addition to the vernaculars threatened with extinction due to the lack of speakers, the values contained in the local languages are lost and not passed on to the following generation. This study was conducted to analyse what role the mother tongue takes in the early childhood, as well as to reveal any obstacles and constraints encountered by parents in using mother tongue outside their hometown. Qualitative research with the case study method was conducted in this research. This study was conducted randomly on parents from Aceh who currently live in Bandung. The findings show that parents assume when they leave their hometown the use of local language as mother tongue is considered not needed by their children. It also reveals a strong correlation between the mother tongue with the environment where the children live, mother-son attachment, as well as the children's love of their culture and homeland. Given the tremendous role of mother tongue in early childhood, the researcher put the interest into this article in order to broaden the parents and society the importance of using mother tongue as the basis for the young children.
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- © 2017, 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Faizatul Faridy AU - Ernawulah Syaodih PY - 2016/11 DA - 2016/11 TI - Analysis on the Importance of Mother Tongue in Early Childhood BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 193 EP - 196 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icece-16.2017.33 DO - 10.2991/icece-16.2017.33 ID - Faridy2016/11 ER -