GESTURE AND SIGN LANGUAGE
“PSIKOLOGI BELAJAR BAHASA”
Supervisor :
NUR IFADLOH, M.Pd
Arranged by :
Member of Group 4
Muhammad Zainor Ihsan : 20.04.01377
Dewi Sinta : 20.04.01382
STAI RAKHA AMUNTAI
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
3RD SEMESTER
2021/2022
Abstract
Research on first language acquisition has been largely developed in the last sixty years due to
more technological improvements and more demand on how first language is acquired.
Researchers are still debating on how much of first language acquisition is nature or innate and
how much is nurture or imitation. The mystery of how children are so quick to acquire their first
language still remains but not all children are as fast as other children to obtain their first
language. This paper is focused on first language development in children, especially in the early
stages. Here we will learn what happens to children’s language development according to their
age level.
Keywords : language, acquisition, developing.
PREFACE
First language acquisition is remarkable for the speed with which it takes place. Long
before a child starts school, he or she has become an extremely sophisticated language-user,
operating a system for self-expression and communication that no other creature, or computer,
comes close to matching. In addition to the speed of acquisition, the fact that it generally occurs,
without overt instruction, for all children, regardless of great differences in their circumstances,
provides strong support for the idea that there is an innate predisposition in the human infant to
acquire language. We can think of this as a special capacity for language with which each
newborn child is endowed. By itself, however, this inborn language capacity is not enough.
DISCUSSION
A. Origin of ASL
B. The Structure of Signs
1. Shape and Orientation
C. The acquisition process,
D. Developing Morphology
CONCLUSION
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive
and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
The acquisition schedule is cooing and babbling, the one-word stage, the two-word stage, and
telegraphic speech. One factor that seems to be important in the child’s acquisition process is the
actual use of sound and word combinations, either in interaction with others or in wordplay,
alone. Morphological development is the development of words and word formation in children.
Syntax development is the development of word order in children. Semantics development is the
development of meaning in children.
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