The Multiple Sequential Activities Techniques Effect to Early Child Language Acquisition During Social Restriction COVID-19 Policy in Indonesia Siti Salamah(a), Fathiaty Murtadho, and Emzir (b)
(a) Student of Doctoral Program in The Department of Language Education, State University of Jakarta, Indonesia
(b) Department of Language Education, State University of Jakarta, Indonesia
Sitisalamah_lt16s3[at]mahasiswa.unj.ac.id, fathiaty.murtadho[at]unj.ac.id, emzir.unj[at].ac.id
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Early childhood is a crucial period for humans to acquire language. Currently, normal activities in Indonesia are limited due to the social restriction policy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, human interaction with the environment is limited. This affects language acquisition in early childhood, which requires the environment as part of driving language acquisition. The role of mothers in providing stimulation to children in learning language is very important. This study aims to describe how the influence of the stimulation is given by a mother to her 20-month-old child on language acquisition during social restriction. Stimulation is given to the child using The Multiple Sequential Activities Techniques. Subjects and objects in this study were sounds, word forms, and sentences of 20-months-old children who initially were only able to pronounce a few vowels and consonants. The case study method is used in this research. The data were collected using participatory observation methods. The data then were analyzed using the grammatical match method. The results showed that the stimulation of techniques provided by the mother had an optimal contribution to the language development of early childhood. The stimulation technique given by the mother shows that the child can pronounce all vowels clearly and only a few consonants that cannot be pronounced (g, r, n, q, z, v). Morphologically, children can pronounce nouns, verbs, adjectives, and numerals. Syntactically, children are able pronounce holophrastic sentences.
Keywords: Keywords: the social restriction policy, the roles of mothers, stimulation, language acquisition
