A Corpus-Based Study on The Development Of the Javanese Language Among Multilingual Children In East Java

This paper seeks to examine multilingual children’s Javanese across different grades of primary schools with a focus on proficiency, vocabulary, and grammatical development. The data were partially taken from CBLING (Corpus Bilingual Learners’ Languages), corpus developed by Universitas Negeri Malang. Using AntConc as development tool, we measured proficiency using the Mean Length Utterances (MLU) method. Our findings vocabulary growth indicated insignificant improvement grades. However, average density grows significantly first two lower three higher ones. In terms grammar, hybrid words showing morphological blendings, such mastekno or isikno observed in participants’ writings. Taken together, our are essential for teaching learning regional home language generating an important linguistic feature 21st century Javanese.
 Keywords: study, language, children, East Java