Berbicara dan Berbahasa pada Anak : Bahasa Pertama dan Bahasa Kedua

Abstract

Speech and Language are one of the main component that needs to be monitored during children growth and development. In Indonesiachildren, the first language(mother tongue) is their motherlanguage which is mainly local language although in urban or big cities particularly, Bahasa Indonesia has been replacing local language as the children first language.It is not known surely that the childrenwith bilingual or multilingual capacity have better cognitive function.