psycholinguistics mini research

2.  Name : Gerren
Hariyudho
 Age : 10 years old
 School : SD Al Azhar
Salatiga
 Class : 5th Grade
 Address : St. Ahmad
Yani 25, Salatiga
 Father’s name :
Siswan
 Mother’s name :
Nanik Yulianti
 Teacher’s name :
Miss Mega

3. The child L1 = Javanese and Bahasa, L2= English
and Arabic, Native language Bahasa. The
child has more dominant with Bahasa than
Javanese because his parents always talk to
him with bahasa.
The parents type of processing L1 is interactionist.
For example: his father usually practice talk to
the child with English when they kidding at
watching TV or gym together. And also his
mother usually shows him with the new
knowledge. For example : show the child with
playing internet together.

4. a. Learner’s Characteristic
Gerren is an active boy. He always
currious about anything and always ask
to his parent. He doesnt like english but
his father sometimes asks him to speak
English. Althought he doesnt like
learning English, he still learning English
and can follow it.

5. b. Learning Condition
In the class, teacher likes to do some
habitual activities in same words every
day. So that the students will memorize
unconciously. He also shows new film
that gives the students motivation to
learn English or Arabic. And he also likes
to do the modelling methods when he
want to shows a new thing.

6.  At home, almost everyday his parents
persuade him to speak English. Beside
that he takes English course once a
week. However, he does not too interest
with English. Actually he likes Arabic but
he cannot speak well.

7. C . Parents Type
The parent is tend to be interactionist. It’s
proved by His father always persuade
him to speak English at home about daily
activity and his mother always shows him
about films and songs.

8. 4. Teacher’s type
The teacher’s style is tend to be
interactionist. She makes the students
have an interaction to the teacher and
friends. For example: the teacher shows
the film and asks the students to give a
comment about the film.

9. A. Psycolinguistic
According to Harley (2001; 1) psycolinguistic as a
“study about mental process in using language”
B. Language Acquisition
Language acquisition is the process that children
acquire their first languages. “ we all watch and
listen with absolute fascination as the first `coos` and
gurgles`; sounding very much like conversation, are
uttered by six-month-old baby.” (Lightbown &
Spada, 1993) Then, the process is going on with
word, two-word and sentences to the whole
language.

10. C. First Language Acquisition
According to Christine C.M and Rita Elaine
Silver (2004:13) first language acquisition is an
amazing process. Consider a child’s
astounding progress from crying, gurgling,
cooing, babbling, uttering single words and
two-words utterances to speaking complete
and well-formed sentences in a matter of three
to four years.
First language can be defined as the first
language you learn in your life. It follows then
that second language is any language you
learn later in life.

11. D . Second Language Aquisition
Second language acquisition refers to
any language learned after in life
(whether it’s the second, third, or fourth.
Brown (2000:280) argued that second
language learning clearly is a process in
which varying degrees of learning and
acquisition can both be beneficial,
depending upon the learner’s own style
and strategies

12. E. Interactionist
As Halliday (1993) cited in Halliday (1973) says
“Language is acquired in a social context – that is by
interacting with other people.” Interactionists believe
that children are born with brains that ready to the
ability to pick up languages as well as with a desire to
communicate. Moreover, Social interactionists argue
that the way a baby learns a language is both
biological and social. Like Piaget, Bruner believed
that children have an innate capacity that helps
them make sense of the work and that cognitive
abilities develop through active interaction. “Also like
nativists, social interactionists believe that children
have some sort of innate predisposition to language
acquisition but that predisposition is less important to
acquisition than is the social environment”(Piper, 1998
cited in Matychuk, 2004)

13. This is the mini research of
qualitative study that using
method of data collection
through observation and
interview.

14. Date Activity
March 28 2015, Saturday We discused about responden and
looked for the book.
March 31 2015, Tuesday We observed our responden, and
collected the data.
April 2 2015, Thursday We discused again about our
observation and matched to the
theory.
April 4 2015, Saturday We finished our report.

15. 1. Interview the child
a. Are you happy to learn English?
answer : No, but I like to watch English
movie and read comics.
We asked about the hobby in English
and he can answer in English too.

16. 2. Interview the parents
What the parents did to make the child
want to learn English?
answer : They show the films that he likes
and persuade him to speak English
almost everyday.

17. 3. What kind of method that the teacher
implemented to teach the students?
answer : the teacher tend to the
interactionist model, teacher likes to do
some habitual activities in same words
every day. So that the students will
memorize unconciously. He also shows new
film that gives the students motivation to
learn English or Arabic. And he also likes to
do the modelling methods when he want
to shows a new thing.

18. 2. What kind of language that the teacher
used in learning process?
answer : Using mix of Indonesian and
English but English more dominant.
Indonesian used for help to understand
the meaning.

19. 1. The first language acquisition of the child is
Indonesian and Javanese, and the native
language is Indonesian.
2. Type of parents are interactionist, because
they always have an interaction to the
child.
3. The child is smart and activebut he doesn’t
like English course, but he can still follow it.
4. Type of the teacher is interactionist
because she make the students always
interact to her and friends.

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Pengantar Pemahaman Bahasa Manusia. Jakarta:
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 Bruner, J. (1983). Child’s talk: Learning to use
language. New York: Norton.
 Halliday, M. A. K. (1993). Towards a language based
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http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcamail.2006_08.dir
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 Piper, T., (1998). Language and Learning: The Home
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