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The aim of this study is to determine the thoughts of Rousseau about mother tongue acquisition in Emile. Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The data source of the study is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. The study data were analyzed by descriptive analysis method. Based on the findings collected from the work in question, the following conclusions were reached: Rousseau took the laws of nature as a basis in child development. Assuming that languages emerged with people's need for communication, Rousseau defined the emphatic, vibratory and natural language that babies use before speaking as the common language of humanity. He adopted the principles from close to far, from simple to difficult, from concrete to abstract in language education, and argued that language acquisition should be based on experience as a pedagogical principle. Stated that a child cannot learn more than one language and that the only language that needs to be learned is the mother tongue. He started the development of listening skills with birth. Emphasized that both listening and speaking processes are shaped by the influence of the family and close environment, especially the mother and father, and that children acquire their mother tongue by imitating the sounds and words they hear from their surroundings. Found reading and writing education unnecessary. Believing that they blunt children's creative skills. He defined reading and writing as skills that the child can learn with his own effort.

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