1. 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)

2. 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

3. BIODATA of RESPONDENT (mother)
• Nuri’s Mother, her
name is Neti
Chasmaliah.
• She is a housewife.

4. BIODATA of RESPONDENT (teacher)
• Name : Retnoningtyas
• She is the second grade class’ guardian of IT
Nidaul Hikmah of Elementary School

5. 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?

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. Result of the research
(a. data from the child)
Nui (the call name of the child) has:
• First language : Bahasa and
Sundanese
• Second language : English and
Arabic
• Native language : Bahasa
• The mother tongue is Sundanese
and Bahasa

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. D. Teacher’s type of processing L2
She teaches 2 languages to her students, Bahasa and
Javanese but dominan with Bahasa.
The students in the classroom more use Bahasa then
Javanese because most of children cannot use Javanese as
their daily language.
They learn Arabic as a foreign language. Teacher gives a
freedom to their student to explore the knowledge but to
add a new vocabulary, she leads a student to do dictation.
She also gives guidance to the difficult lesson or topic.
Students do experiment when it needs practices.

15. 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 lets her child to gain the knowledge
through the social and psychological aspects of language
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 to study language and teaches
teaches to make practice. (Child’s pragmatic intentions)

16. resources
• Goh,Christine C.M and Rita Elain Silver. 2004.
Language Acquisition and Development.
Singapore: Prentice Hall
• Arifuddin. 2010. Neuropsikolinguistik. Jakarta:
Rajawali Pers