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The Differences in the sentence forms, the sentence types and the phrase forms produced by children aged four to seven and children aged eight to eleven during the ten chosen situations

For conducting the research to verify whether there are differences which
can be found in the use of sentence forms, sentence types, and phrase forms
produced by children aged four to seven and children aged eight to eleven based on
Piaget's theory of children language development, the writer applied language
acquisition theories and used a qualitative method of research. She utilized
participant observation way of collecting data to do the research in which its main
focus was on the sentence forms, the sentence types, and the phrase forms produced
and used by eight Indonesian children aged four to eleven during the observations.
The data were collected by recording the speech given during the ten situations
chosen and were written down. Then, the speech were compared and analyzed
based on the use of sentence forms, sentence types, and phrase forms in order to
find out the differences which could be found in the use of those three aspects of
verbalization.
The findings of the research revealed numbers of differences in the
language produced by children from both groups as well as some similarities which
needed considering. This led the writer to draw a conclusion that in regards to then-use
of sentence forms, sentence types, and phrase forms, children from the first
group mostly produced and used their language differently from the older ones;
nevertheless, the differences in the speech given by these two groups of children
were not radical and consistent, since they were also accompanied by some
similarities, in some cases, in which the speech performed by children