Language acquisition or language acquisition is the process that takes place in the brain in childhood when he gained his first language or the language of the mother. Language acquisition are usually distinguished with language learning. With regard to language learning processes that occur at the time a child learning a second language after he gained his first language. Thus, language acquisition with regard to the first language, while learning the language with regard to the second language (Chaer, 2003:169).During the first language acquisition, Chomsky States that there are two processes that occur when a child obtains his first language. The specified process is a process of competence and process performance. Both of these processes are two different processes. Competence is the mastery of grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics) are unconscious. This competency is carried by every child since birth. Although it carried since birth, requiring the construction of competence so that children have a good performance in the language. Performance is the ability of the child to use language to communicate. The performance consists of two processes, namely the process of understanding and the process of publishing the sentences. The process of understanding involves the ability to observe or mempersepsi sentences that are heard, while the publishing process involves the ability of generating sentences (Chaer 2003:167).
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