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This study aims at describing the ability of an Indonesia young learner of English in negotiation o meanings. The object of the study is a kindergarten student of bilingual school in Indonesia. The learner’s utterances were recorded, transcribed and documented to be analyzed and interpreted. The unit of analysis is move(s). Transcripts of conversation of the learner were divided into moves and analyzed further using speech function network of conversation proposed by Eggins and Slades (1997). The moves were analyzed to find the negotiation of meanings’ type through the system of mood including system of mood (subject and finite), residue (predicator and complement) and adjunct (mood adjunct, circumstantial adjunct, and comment adjunct). The findings of this study show that the child is capable to produce almost all of speech choices based on Eggins and Slades (1997: 192-213). The mood type the child could produce includes declarative, polar interrogative, Wh-interrogative imperative, minor clause, expansion and projection. The learner used all types of negotiation, that is interpersonal negotiation and logico-semantic negotiation in the conversation. The conversations belong to normal casual conversation because the interpersonal is more dominant than that of the logico-semantic negotiation. It is reasonable to argue that in Indonesian context, a structured immersion program proves to be effective in developing communicative competence. Key Word: Young Learner, Negotiation Of Meanings, Moves, Mood, Residue, Interpersonal Meanings,

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