CONVERSATION AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AMONG THREE- YEARS OLD CHILDREN

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.