THE PARENTS’ PARENTING PERCEPTION ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AT EARLY AGE FOR THEIR CHILDREN
Abstract
The aim of this research was to investigate the parents’ parenting perception
on English language acquisition at an early age for their children. In addition, this
research focused on two main objectives, to know the reason why the parents expose
their children with the English language from their early age and investigate how the
parents habituate their children with the English language from their early age. The
participants of this research were the lecturers from two different faculties in the same
University. This research was conducted at one of the private university in
Yogyakarta. In this research, the researcher used descriptive qualitative design as a
research method. The researcher gathered the data through an interview. The results
showed that there were three reasons why the parents exposed their children with the
English language at an early age. Those findings of the parents’ reason to expose
English to their children at early age were to secure the children’s future, to maintain
communication, and to increase the children’s knowledge. Besides, there were six
findings which the parents used to habituate their children. Those were creating visual
aids, exposing with visual aids, exposing with auditory, exposing with audio-visual,
creating environments for the English use, demonstrating the example through
modeling, and showing the real object. Furthermore, the researcher found that the
parents showed the various parenting perceptions on the English language acquisition
at an early age for their children.