Creating story: how young children use indonesian cohesive devices  

Oleh:

Ferhadija, Fitriana ; Kushartanti, Bernadette

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 16: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keenam Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 188-192.
Topik: Grammatical Cohsive Device; Narrative Speech; Conjunction; Young Children
Fulltext: 188-192 Fitriana Ferhadija - Bernadette Kushartanti_Edited.pdf (349.0KB)

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At very young age, children are able to convey a story or event chronologically. They are also able to produce some kinds of cohesive devices when they are creating story. Indonesian children apparently are no exception.The most prominent aspect is the grammatical cohesive device, especially conjunctions. In this paper we analyse the use of conjunction in Indonesian-speaking children’s narrative production. We address two questions: 1) how do they use conjunction in narrative; and 2) what kind of conjunctions do they use while telling story? This study involved 4 to 6 years old kindergarteners from middle-class families who live in Jakarta and Bogor. We use elicited production task with a wordless picture story book as the instrument in order to obtain children’s speech production. The children are asked to create story based on the instrument. Data in this study is children’s narrative speech especially the story based on the story book, and are analyzed statistically on the frequencies and correlations. The result shows that many of young children are able to use conjunction appropriately in simple sentences while they are telling story. Temporal conjunction is the most frequently used, while the adversative conjunction has the lowest usage in the children’s speech.

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