THE FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF SPEECH BY 2.7 YEARS KARONESE CHILD

Abstract

The study of children’s language acquisition is always interesting to be investigated. It will make better understanding about the development of the children’s language and knowing uniqueness of children in producing a language. But nowadays, the parents do not teach the native language to their children formally because of modernism.All the children generally using Bahasa Indonesia to communicate to another. We can see from the Karonese children’s, their first language is BahasaKaro, but sometimesthey using Bahasa Indonesia in spoken. The daily activity, such as watching TV, listening the music, sings a song by using Bahasa, will influence their language. The children in developing their language have big influence from their parents. The vocabulary, grammar and accent that they heard every day will shape their language. For example, a family who lives in Kabanjahe has a children, they talk to their child by using Indonesian language with Karo accent and combination with Karo grammar, will affect their child’s speech utterance. Beside that the parents who use Indonesian language to communicate with their children in every day, will reduce the child’s understanding of the mother tongue.