THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF LANGUAGE

Abstract

Language was firstly taught by our parents when we were a baby. From that moment,we improve our speaking skills through listening and imitating. That is the process we start our interaction with a language. People communicate and socialize throughlanguage they learn. As a matter of fact, there are thousands of languages spoken in the whole world. People from different region will speak in different language as well. Language represents the identity and existence of one tribe or country. So that’s why it correlates with the cultural background. People should make a system in using thelanguage continually as well as identifying the solution to every problems they mayhave. Therefore, the language won’t distinct among other languages. Parents play animportant role in maintaining one language by transmitting the culture to the nextgeneration. Furthermore, this study will discuss about the language maintenancethrough the aspects of intergeneration transmission, with the complexity of the problems that may occur in the real life.