FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUSITION

DIFERRENCES
Mother tongue
Native language
First language acquistion

MOTHER TONGUE
Sometimes the term mother tongue or mother
language is used for the language that a person
learnt as a child at home (usually from their
parents). Children growing up in bilingual homes
can, according to this definition, have more than
one mother tongue or native language.
The origin of the term "mother tongue" harks
back to the fact that linguistic skills of a child are
honed by the mother and therefore the language
spoken by the mother would be the primary
language that the child would learn.

 In some countries such as Kenya, India, and various East

Asian countries, "mother language" or "native language" is
used to indicate the language of one's ethnic group, in both
common and journalistic parlance (e.g. 'I have no apologies
for not learning my mother tongue'), rather than one's first
language. Also in Singapore, "mother tongue" refers to the
language of one's ethnic group regardless of actual
proficiency, while the "first language" refers to the English
language that was established on the island through British
colonisation, which is the lingua franca for most postindependence Singaporeans due to its use as the language
of instruction in government schools and as a working
language.

 To a person his mother tongue is a blessing in

disguise. It is not merely a time-table subject
in his education but is forced upon him from
all sides. It is learnt by both the direct or
conscious and the indirect or unconscious
method.

 In this case tongue means language. It is called

mother tongue because it is the language spoken
by the mother country in which you were born. In
multilingual societies like Nigeria, Ghana and
most African countries, mother tongue cannot
refer to only the language spoken by the mother
country. Mother tongue would mean the
language the mother or caretaker passes on to
the child. The assumption is that children grow
under the eye of their mothers, hence mother
tongue.

 Your mother tongue means your birth

language, or your mother's language. Your
primary language is your mother tongue like
oriya,hindi,bengali

NATIVE LANGUAGE
Sometimes the term native language is used
to indicate a language that a person is as
proficient in as a native individual of that
language's "base country", or as proficient as
the average person who speaks no other
language but that language.

 One can have two or more native languages, thus

being a native bilingual or indeed multilingual.
The order in which these languages are learned is
not necessarily the order of proficiency. For
instance, a French-speaking couple might have a
daughter who learned French first, then English;
but if she were to grow up in an English-speaking
country, she would likely be proficient in English.
Other examples are India , Malaysia and South
Africa, where most people speak more than one
language.

FIRST LANGAUGE ACQUISTION

In the context of population censuses conducted on
the Canadian population, Statistics Canada defines
mother tongue as "the first language learned at home
in childhood and still understood by the individual at
the time of the census."[3] It is quite possible that the
first language learned is no longer a speaker's
dominant language. This includes young immigrant
children, whose families have moved to a new
linguistic environment, as well as people who learned
their mother tongue as a young child at home (rather
than the language of the majority of the community),
who may have lost, in part or in totality, the language
they first acquired (see language attrition).

 The first language of a child is part of their

personal, social and cultural identity.[4]
Another impact of the first language is that it
brings about the reflection and learning of
successful social patterns of acting and
speaking. It is basically responsible for
differentiating the linguistic competence of
acting.

YULIA MUTHMAINAH
bhs pertama (first lge)
klo aku nyebutnya sih bahasa utama kita
klo aku pribadi sih first lang ku bhs jawa
aku native speaker bhs jawa n b.indo
mother tongue-ku bhs jawa

GROUP 1
Imitating (D)
Innate model; cognitive determinism (B)

behaviourism, input from environment (C)

Group 2

Nativist
Behaviorism
Cognitivism
Nature vs nuture (D)

Cognitive determinism (B)

Innate; behaviorism; cognitive determinism (C)

Group 3
Internal process/ motherese; Innate/inborn
(Language Acquisition Device) (D)
Cognitive determinism (B)
Imitation/ behaviorism; constructivism(C)

Group 4
Motherese
Environment (D)

Cognitive determinism (B)

Cognitive determinism (C)

Group 5
Psychology aspect
Innate (D)

Behaviorrism (B)
Cognitive determinism; caregiver/caretaker
speech (C)