Characteristics of the Acquisition Strategy a Pragmatic Competence of Bilingualism Children’s

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to assess the acquisition strategy of pragmatic competence in Indonesian language of preschoolers. This study used a qualitative approach with a longitudinal study design.The instruments of this study are researchers as a key instrument in the form of guidelines supporting instruments of observation and electronic recording devices and field notes. This research data in the form of oral speech are taken with the technique of observation of eight subjects, consisting of children ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 years each was two people. Data were analyzed based performance analysis techniques. Based on data analysis findings that learning strategies in the acquisition of pragmatic competence that were used preschoolers are cognitive strategies and social strategies. Cognitive strategies used in preschoolers, among others, (1) imitation of speech, (2) the repetition of speech, (3) the use of speech patterns, (4) improvement of speech, and (5) translation.Social strategies used preschoolers are (1) the request for clarification and (2) the question-reciprocal response. The use of type and various types of learning strategies is influenced by several factors, namely age, level of mastery of language, bilingualism, the child's personality, communication objectives, and learning situation. In the process of acquisition of pragmatic competence use types and the variety of types of learning strategies that function is mastering the forms of speech used by a child to express a variety of purposes to the hearer.