Abstract:
This study discusses conversation and language acquisition among three-years old
children. The purpose of this study is to find out that three-year-old children in the
pronunciation of vowels and consonants of words or sentences are still less precise
and less clear, to find out why three- years old children cannot compose perfect
sentences in conversation. A qualitative descriptive method was applied to analyze
the data. The data of this study were taken from the conversations of three- years
old children, namely DSZ and SYF. DSZ are already in the process of forming
perfect sentences but the pronunciation is not clear. Meanwhile, SYF has difficulty
forming sentences and the pronunciation is not clear. The results obtained indicated
that the research subjects were able to produce sentences according to their function
as a communicative functions, namely declarative sentences, interrogative
sentences, and imperative sentences. Some were influenced by cognitive factors,
social background, and input to improve communication and language
development. So that the research subjects can master the language and
communicate well.
