ENGLISH SENTENCE ACQUISITION BY MALE AND FEMALE YOUNG LEARNERS

This study deals to find out English sentence acquisition by male and female young learners. The objectives of this research were: 1) to find out types of English sentences acquired by male and female young learners. 2) to investigate how male and female young learners acquired English sentences. 3) to reason for male and female English sentence acquisition in the way they do. The sources or subjects of this research were 20 kindergarten students of K-2 David in TK Kristen Kalam Kudus Pematangsiantar, 11 males and 9 females. The research design is qualitative research design. The instrument of data collection used video recording to observe the subjects in real situation and naturally. The results reveal that: 1) The types of English sentences acquired by male and female young learners are declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences, which is males acquired interrogative sentences much more in their conversation while females acquired declarative sentences more than other types. Females articulate better and acquire a more extensive vocabulary than males or boys. 2) The ways male and female young learners acquired their English sentences are by their experience and interaction, naturally from the environment, by imitative, and can be by playing and working. 3) The reasons for males and females acquired English sentences because first, English is a part of their environment. TK Kristen Kalam Kudus Pematangsiantar is an English based school in daily subjects. They become aware English in school time. The second is because it is principle of identification. Family background plays an important role in children’s language acquisition. The third is because capacities for language acquisition are structurally present at birth and that maturation of these structures brings about changes in the child’s use of language throughout the acquisition period.