Thesis Reviews Literary Reviews

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CHAPTER II LITERARY REVIEWS, CONCEPTS, THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

2.1 Literary Reviews

The literary review is the description about the strength and the weakness from previous studies and how the relevancy between the previous study with this study. In supporting this study, there are three reviews of previous thesis and two international articles collected as the references of this study.

2.1.1 Thesis Reviews

The first undergraduate thesis is from Risnawati 2008 entitled “First Language Acquisition of Second Year Old Children in Terms of English Vocabularies and The Structure of Sentences”. In this paper, she explained the background of her study from the general to the specific. In her study, there are three problems, those are; first, how is development of the language acquisition of second year old children acquiring English vocabularies and second is how the structure of the sentences of second year old children and the third is what are the factors influencing language development in acquiring English vocabularies and the structure of their sentences. In solving the formulated problems, she gave three theories, those are behavioristic, nativist, and functional. She explained it clearly based on the theory. That is the strength of her study. However, there is several weakness of her study, first, in the background; she did not tell the differences between the first language acquisition and the second language acquisition. Second, she does not tell the reason why she chose the topic as her study. Third, in the data source, she does not mention the reason why she chose second year old children as her object in her study. Fourth, the method and technique of collecting and analyzing the data need more elaboration. The last, in the literary review, she explained four literary reviews but she did not tell the relevance between her study and the previous study. Her study used the same theories with this study; therefore the review of her study is needed. The purpose is to compare her study and this study. The second undergraduate thesis is from Iswari 2010 entitled “The Parents Influences to Children in acquiring English Vocabulary through Reading Story Books”. She wrote about the acquiring vocabularies of children through reading book. In the background she explained the background from the general to specific one. In this study she gave two formulated problems, those are how is the language development of the children by using the story book in children’s language learning process and what is the factor influencing the acquisition of new English vocabulary children. She also explained the aim and the scope of her study. She used participatory observation method in collecting the data because the observer could be as a part of the related situation and was able to involve in the conversation and see directly the children’s process of acquiring English Vocabulary. She also has object in her study; those are Kirana Maheswari and Davina Dewanta, the daughter of Mr. Dharma yoga and Mrs. Handayani. In the data sources, she explained the reason in choosing those children as her object in her study. In literary review, she also gave clear explanation about the strength, the weakness, and the relevance between her study and the previous study. She gave theory from Lee 1979 and Berry Eisenson 1973 in solving the formulated problems. Meanwhile, there are two weaknesses of her study; first, the writer did not explain the statistical of vocabularies of the children generally. Second, in the method and technique of analyzing the data, it needs more elaboration. This study is more focused to the parent’s influences in acquiring the language of their children. Based on Iswari’s work, th e parent’s influences of Tonya could be compared with the other parents’ influences to help their children to communicate. The third undergraduate thesis is from Triningsih 2013 entitled “The Language Development by the Children in Acquiring English Vocabulary through the English Children Music Video”. Triningsih discussed about the development of children language, especially in acquiring English vocabulary using English Children Music Video. She explained the background from general to specific. First, she explained what the language is. Second, she explained what the meaning of the language acquisition and she explained it more specific. She also explained the reason in choosing the title and using English children music video. Based on her opinion, children are the good imitators and they have own way to learn English, they usually repeat what they see and hear. Therefore, videos of English children songs are used to acquire English vocabulary through any activities such as, watching, singing, and repeating English words. In this thesis, Triningsih discussed about the effectiveness of Music Video to support young children in learning English and the responses given by the children after watching the music video to acquire English vocabulary. The discussion of the study is focused on the behaviorist theory which describes the imitation, the reinforcement, and rewarding to mentalist, empiricist, and rationalist theory. The study is limited to the preschool, age 3-5 years old which focuses on the effectiveness of English children music video in acquiring English vocabulary. The videos are obtained from you tube and the objects are the children with the stage of age between 3-6 years old in TK Negeri Negara. In method and technique of collecting data, she made direct observation to the children. The data was analyzed qualitatively and presented descriptively. In this study, there are also three review of previous study and one international article related to her study. However, Triningsih did not explain the reason in choosing the children in TK Negeri Negara as her objects in her study. In the research method, it needs more elaboration especially for the data source, method and technique of analyzing the data. The theories in her study are also used in this study, therefore the review of Triningsih’ work is needed to compare her study and this study because it is related to each other.

2.1.2 International Articles Review