Dialectical Literature and Education Journal
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020): Dialectical Literature and Education Journal

FIRST LANGUAGE VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT AND PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDONESIAN CHILD: A CASE STUDY

Sugiyanta (STKIP Panca Sakti)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jan 2021

Abstract

First language vocabulary development and phonological development are important for a child to interact with others and to acquire second language. This current research aims to explore the first language vocabulary development and phonological development of an Indonesian child. The subject of this current research is an Indonesian female child aged 2.10 years. Recordings were employed as the research instrument to collect data. The data were collected by recording the child’s utterances within a three-month period, commencing from February 5, 2019 to April 23, 2019. There were nine (9) recordings in February, twenty-five (25) recordings in March, and twenty-six (26) recording in April. To explore the child’s first language vocabulary and phonological development, the recordings of the child’s utterances were transcribed. The findings show that the vocabulary development of the child occurred in the names of animals, vegetables, fruits, transportation, stationary, numbers, colours, and family members. In addition, the findings also indicate that child’s phonological development did not yet happen in the second month of the research (March 2019). It occurred in the third month only in the categories of other things and colours. A study should be further conducted with more categories, not only focusing on the main four parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, but also on pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and articles.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

dlejpancasakti

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science

Description

Dialectical Literature and Education Journal is a journal that publishes original papers researching or documenting issues in literature and education. It is published by English Education Department, STKIP Panca Sakti Bekasi. The journal has regularly published two times a year in March and ...