An Indonesian Bilingual Child Development: Highlighting the Influential Factors and Strategies

Andriani, Agis and Kartika, Rika and Dewi, Nita Sari Narulita and Suroso, Edy (2022) An Indonesian Bilingual Child Development: Highlighting the Influential Factors and Strategies. Al-Ishlah: Jurnal Pendidikan, 14 (2). ISSN 2087-9490

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Abstract

Bilingual children are always interesting to be studied because they might have different uniqueness in experiencing their language development. Eleven years old Indonesian participant in this research experienced to have a special condition which makes her difficult to focus, but then, exposed to more than one language since she was a young age. Along with the proper parenting styles, this study gives empirical insight into the factors and strategies contributed to maximize the children’s language development. Data taken from observation of the video taken since the participant 3-4 years old until now, interviews both the child and mother, and documentation showed that innate factors and strategies including watching and listening, imitating and repeating, storytelling and self-talking, doing minimal grasp strategy, code-switching and move-on strategies, and giving educational support and motivations are supported to the child to have bilingual capacity in her communication. However, the milestone or stages of children’s bilingual development has not been investigated yet. Thus, to get a deeper understanding, future studies should investigate the milestone of children’s bilingual language developmentthe findings can be extended to which could inform other researchers about what should be conducted next in the case that the longitudinal observation is needed.

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