11 CHAPTER II THEORITICAL FOUNDATION A. Understanding Of
CHAPTER II THEORITICAL FOUNDATION A. Understanding of Reading Comprehension 1. Language Learning According to Oxford Leaner’s Dictionary, language is 1. System of communication in speech and writing used by people of a particular country; 2. Language is the use by human of a system of sounds and words to communicate; 3. Particular style of speaking or writing; 4. Ways of expressing ideas and feelings using movements, symbols ad sounds; 5. System of symbols and rules to operate a computer. So that, language is the main instrument to communicate with another and cannot be replaced by another way. And in another source, Hughes (1962: 6) defines that language as a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by which thought is conveyed from one human being to another. Every human beings who is then developing into a family, an ethnic group, and nation absolutely have their own language in which one another is absolutely different whether seen from the point of the way of pronouncing the words or seen from the point of the language rulers. Someone’s language acquisition, ethnic group, and nation will happen automatically by interaction or communication among the members of family or among the ethnic group of a country. 11 12 Then, according to Bojovic (2010; 128) language learning (language acquisition) is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. Language learning is one of the quintessential human traits, because nonhumans do not communicate by using language. Language acquisition usually refers to first-language acquisition, which studies infants' acquisition of their native language.
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