A Cultural Trans-generational Process on Low-Carbon Society in Family with Parents with Different First Language: Indonesian and Javanese

Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University, Semarang - Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: deliundip@gmail.com

Abstract

Building low-carbon society must be promoted from the earliest stage in life. This article aims at elaborating how to do it to a very small baby. This is done to a family whose parents with different first language. The problem is that how the parents can be successful in transfering the values since they have different first language namely Indonesian and Javanese. What language is exposed to the child will be another problem. Obervation and interview supported by note-taking technique were used to collect the data. Referential and inferential methods were used to analyze them. The result indicates that language or culture comprehension happens in the first six months, then the production occurs in the second six months. Indonesian is exposed to the child. This is supported by the parents' policy supporting the strategy to raise the status and function of Indonesian. It is used for transfering the values of minimizing the use of carbon in life to support living environmentally healty through developing children's vocabulary or speech. This study focuses on the child at the age of 0 to 1 year as the beginning of language and culture acquisition.