Abstract
The aims of this study are to know the role of young learner’s parents in choosing good and educating television program for their child, and to describe the effects of TV exposure in their child’s English language development. A five-year-old young learner who lives in Denpasar was observed in 2017. The data were collected by giving a questionnaire to the young learner’s parents in order to get the description of the effects of the television programs to her language development. As it is a following research of the previous research on English vocabulary acquisition, the results of the observation of the young learner and the interview with her parents that have already been done are used to support the analysis of this small research. The collected data were analysed descriptively based on approaches from Barr, et.al. (2010), Christakis (2009), and March (2004) about English language acquisition and language development of young children. The results show that the young learner’s parents have the important role in choosing good and educating television program for her. It can be seen from the choices of cartoon movies as one of the television programs that is educating as well as entertaining for a child in her age, the intensive accompaniment when she was watching the movies, the limitation of television watching time, and also the parents’ assistance in order to help her understand the stories and vocabulary meanings. It is true that good content, context, and the amount of daily TV viewing time as well as parental assistance will be beneficial for the young learner’s second language development in informal learning situation. The effectiveness of watching cartoon movies has led her to gain the positive second language development in her bilingual condition, although English code-switching in Indonesian sentences sometimes occur.
 Keywords: SLA, English, language development, TV exposure, cartoon movies
Highlights
1.1 BACKGROUNDEducating television programs may have positive effects on children’s language development between the ages of two and five years. Close (2004:5) states that under the right conditions, children between two and five years old may experience benefits from good-quality educational television programs
This study is in relation with the previous research about English Vocabulary Acquisition by A Young Learner (Widiastuti, Dewi, and Maharani, 2017) that aims at finding out the English vocabulary acquired by a young learner from cartoon movies and describing how she understands the meanings
The data were collected by giving a questionnaire to Vio’s parents in order to know whether her parents are involved in choosing television programs for her, and to get the description of the effects of the television programs to her language development. As it is a following research of the previous research on English vocabulary acquisition, the results of the observation of Vio and the interview with her parents that have already been done are used to support the analysis of this small research
Summary
1.1 BACKGROUNDEducating television programs may have positive effects on children’s language development between the ages of two and five years. Close (2004:5) states that under the right conditions, children between two and five years old may experience benefits from good-quality educational television programs. Close (2004:5) states that under the right conditions, children between two and five years old may experience benefits from good-quality educational television programs. Right conditions meant are related to good and educating television programs for children that can encourage talk, parents accompanying, and time limitation in television watching. A five-year-old young learner, namely Vio, was observed and her parents were interviewed in order to get the data. Vio’s language development from watching television programs is gained under the right conditions, as stated by Close (2004) and that is in line with Hurlock’s (2000) statement that her intelligent and good discipline results in having good development in acquiring vocabulary
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