Learning English Language In Malaysian

Introduction

It is undeniably to say that English language is very crucial among Malaysians. It has been used for many years as a base in communication, in many kind of aspect, such as education, commerce as well as mass media. This has come along with the development of country that has been happening up until this exact moment. The wide use of this language absolutely demands for the process of spreading it throughout the whole country, even in rural areas. Hence, the process of learning English language as second language among Malaysians is vital. This is where the education takes place in order to improve the English skills among citizen nowadays. Initiatives have been made by government in order to make the enhancement of English language.

This relates us back to the definition of native speaker. The native speaker learns language from the stage of infancy. In Psycholinguistics, this falls under the Infancy Cognitive Development where human being learned the ability to communicate, to comprehend and to produce spoken language when they were an infant. “Babies ' and young children 's language development is strongly influenced by the language they hear spoken around them and to them. The more babies are exposed to language, the more opportunities they 'll have to practice their developing communication skills.” (Oswalt, 2007, p. 9) When the process of learning their first language begin at early stage of adapting, it is vital to say that the first language is well-practiced throughout their whole life. When the process of practicing the language happened in constant, on daily basis to be certain, the native speakers become familiar with the structure of the particular language. Hence, the accuracy and fluency towards that language is undeniably near to perfect compared to non-native

It is a nature of native speaker to be able to produce fluent and spontaneous discourse because he/she has mastered the language well. For example, a native speaker is in a conversation where two persons produce spoken language, the same language that they share. The conversation is affective; the message is well-delivered because they are well familiar with the language compared to a conversation between one native speaker and a second language speaker. The level of competency is different, as well as the level of effectiveness in terms of message deliverance. When two native speakers converse, the conversation is effective and runs smoothly because of the level of knowledge of language is rather high. However, in a conversation involving two speakers that did not share the same level of competency in English, either the message or the process of language production is not as efficient compared to conversation that involves the competency of two native speakers. It is likely to be true that some of second language speakers have reached almost the same competency as native speakers; however, there must be a gap in between the level competency itself. For example, second speakers usually think in their first language, and then translate it into target language, while native speakers would already think in their first language