Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First Language
The present article is intended to examine what a child acquiring a first language did when he encountered a communication block in his interaction with others. More specifically, it examine linguistic output modification attempted by the child when he was not successful in getting his meaning acro...
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Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)
2004-08-01
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The present article is intended to examine what a child acquiring a first language did when he encountered a communication block in his interaction with others. More specifically, it examine linguistic output modification attempted by the child when he was not successful in getting his meaning across or in achieving his intended goal. The corpus data, in the form of cards containing naturally occur-ring utterances together with the context which were collected for one-year, starting at age 1;6 and ended at 2;6, were part of a participant-observation, parental-diary, naturalistic case study into his early language development. In his attempts to overcome a communication block, the child was found to make phonological, lexical, morphological, and syntactical elaboration, thus producing more-comprehensible output. Relevant implications are then forwarded for the teaching of English in Indonesia.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d4dfd87fb9ae49e995f0d5b7171e2f192023-07-10T06:49:42ZengAssociation for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)TEFLIN Journal0215-773X2356-26412004-08-0115210.15639/teflinjournal.v15i2/142-157209Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First LanguagePatuan Raja0FKIP Universitas Lampung The present article is intended to examine what a child acquiring a first language did when he encountered a communication block in his interaction with others. More specifically, it examine linguistic output modification attempted by the child when he was not successful in getting his meaning across or in achieving his intended goal. The corpus data, in the form of cards containing naturally occur-ring utterances together with the context which were collected for one-year, starting at age 1;6 and ended at 2;6, were part of a participant-observation, parental-diary, naturalistic case study into his early language development. In his attempts to overcome a communication block, the child was found to make phonological, lexical, morphological, and syntactical elaboration, thus producing more-comprehensible output. Relevant implications are then forwarded for the teaching of English in Indonesia. https://journal.teflin.org/index.php/journal/article/view/220language acquisitioncomprehensible inputnegotiationcomprehensible outputlinguistic elaboration |
| spellingShingle | Patuan Raja Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First Language TEFLIN Journal language acquisition comprehensible input negotiation comprehensible output linguistic elaboration |
| title | Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First Language |
| title_full | Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First Language |
| title_fullStr | Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First Language |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First Language |
| title_short | Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First Language |
| title_sort | comprehensible output a lesson from a child acquiring a first language |
| topic | language acquisition comprehensible input negotiation comprehensible output linguistic elaboration |
| url | https://journal.teflin.org/index.php/journal/article/view/220 |
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