MSA as a Mother Tongue in Algerian Children, Challenges and Constraints, the Case of Three Young Girls.

Résumé

This article deals with a realistic experience. The latter is all about the formal functional linguistic repertoire through the process of first language acquisition. our three daughters have been the case study, where we used MSA as a mean of interaction and communication with them from their first months and observed their progress. In addition, and thanks to different cartoon channels broadcasted in MSA, our daughters got a rich linguistic repertoire that enabled them constructing full grammatically correct sentences. But, unfortunately, this progress did not last; as the official contact with the Algerian dialect was when our first daughter entered to school, and she was criticised by the others; the matter which led her to use the dialect whenever necessary and her sisters were affected by the new situation. Far from the academic and religious settings, using MSA is negatively received by our society members, unlike the case of French.