The Learning of English as a Foreign Language: What EFL Teachers Should Know  

Oleh:

Djonhar, Santi Chairani

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 61st TEFLIN International Conference : English Language Curriculum Development: Implications for Innovations in Language Policy and Planning, Pedagogical Practices, and Teacher Professional Development, Solo, 7 - 9 October 2014, page 1341-1343 .
Topik: foreign language; opportunities; exposure; practice; language development
Fulltext: THE LEARNING OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.pdf (8.1MB)

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There are preconditions that make learning a foreign language possible such as sufficient exposure and opportunities to use the language. This is consonant with Chomsky’s (1999) statement “…… language learning is not something that a child does; it is something that happens to the child placed in an appropriate environment”. This study investigates an Indonesian child (a boy, aged 6 years) who learns English regularly by for example, watching his English movies from Cabled TV programs like Disney Channel and Nickelodeon and he frequently communicates in English at home, particularly with his only younger brother and mother. This is a longitudinal study in which the data was collected for 18 months (January 2001 - July 2002) by recording the child’s spontaneous speech at home environment. The data was transcribed then analyzed to see the development of his English syntactic constructions: infinitival and sentential complements, relative clauses, and conjoinedclause constructions (Tomasselo, 2003; Diessel, 2004; O’Graddy, 2005). The findings of this study show that the development of these 3 types of sentence constructions is the same as that of English children. This phenomenon invites EFL teachers to provide their students with a lot of exposure to and opportunitiesn to use English as much as they can.

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