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The effect of developmentally moderated focus on form instruction in Indonesian kindergarten children learning English as a foreign language
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A case study on the acquisition of plurality in a bilingual Malay-English context-bound child
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How recorded audio-visual feedback can improve academic language support
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Early lexical and grammatical development of English in Indonesian kindergarten children
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This paper is an investigation of how children in Indonesian kindergarten develop their English as a foreign language (EFL) through classroom interaction. It examines the acquisition of early English lexicon and grammatical development focusing on plural expressions. Processability Theory (Pienemann) and Interactionist Approaches (Long and Robinson; Doughty and Williams) were used as the theoretical frameworks. The data were collected at a kindergarten which offers a bilingual programme in Bandung, West Java, where Sundanese is the major language and Indonesian is the national language. The participants comprised of Group A (ab initio, children aged 4 to 5 years) and Group B (2nd year, children aged 5 to 6 years) as well as their teacher. This study focused on the analysis of data gained from five children, each in Group A and Group B. In Group A, the Developmentally Moderated Focus on Form (DMFonF) instruction (Di Biase, "Focus-on-Form and Development in L2 Learning") was introduced as part of the syllabus in the classroom experimentally while in Group B, the teacher continued the same regular teaching instruction which was not DMFonF. The DMFonF instruction in this study focused on the acquisition of plural marking on noun. Data were collected before and after the DMFonF instruction (i.e., pre- and post-test) and distributed over one semester. Classroom interaction was audio and video-recorded. To elicit the lexical and grammatical structures from the children, they were audio recorded individually in pre- and post-test through communicative tasks. The data were processed using ELAN annotation tool for video and audio resources and KWIC concordance software. Group A children’s lexical and grammatical development were assessed based on their pre- and post-test results. Also, Group A children’s data were compared against the results provided by Group B children, who were three semesters ahead of Group A but had not received DMFonF instruction in their kindergarten English programme. The results from this study contribute to understanding early English education in Indonesia and other Asian countries which promote learning English from an early age.
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200401 - Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics; 930102 - Learner and Learning Processes; early childhood education; English language; Indonesia; kindergarten; second language acquisition
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URL: http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:51916 https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1486
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“She has many. cat?” : on-line processing of L2 morphophonology by Mandarin learners of English
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Designing HTML5 LexiFunII : Japanese learning can be fun for all
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Bilingual development of Malay and English : the case of plural marking
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Subject realisation in Italian L2 : a cross-sectional study of production data
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Connecting CALL and second language development : e-tandem learning of Japanese
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Argument structure and lexicon : cross-linguistic studies in English L2 and Japanese L2
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Imparare a interrogare in una seconda lingua : ipotesi per l’italiano e l’inglese
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Acquiring procedural skills in L2 : Processability theory and skill acquisition
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Beyond canonical order : the acquisition of marked word orders in Italian as a second language
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The transition from nominal to pronominal person reference in the early language of a Mandarin-English bilingual child
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