The Language Production of Monolingual Children and Multilingual Children: A Comparative Study of Psycholinguistics

Claudya Benesa Siagian (English Department, Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar)
Bernieke Anggita Ristia Damanik (English Department, Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar)

TRANS-LITE Journal of Translation Linguistics and Literature
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024): September 2024

This study aims to determine the comparison of language production in monolingual and multilingual children. In comparing these two studies, two previous studies will be compared, namely research from Murni Mahmud, et al. 2022. Language Production Of Children Aged 6 Years Old: A Psycholinguistics Study and Maria Klara, et al. Language Production among Multilingual Children: Insights on Code Mixing. In the comparison carried out, it was found that monolingual children had obstacles in thinking in composing to say what was on their minds, while multilingual children tended to accidentally speak in mixed languages, but the obstacle was that sometimes the person they were talking to did not understand the language of the speaker.