Abstract :
In Indonesia English becomes first focus in education system. It had been
teaching since elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, and
university. Now, English is not only started from elementary school but
kindergartens have implemented English as their subject to learn. Bilingual for
kindergarten has emerged at rural area for about two years ago. Now kindergarten
is the first school that uses two languages in teaching and learning process, those
are; mothers? language and foreign language (English). As we know that
kindergarten is the first education for children, so it is better for children to
continue in the next level. In this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative
as a research design. The subjects of this research are 32 parents of first year of
two bilingual kindergartens. Those are ?Shoots Excellent? and ?Masa Depan?
kindergartens. The data was collected by using questionnaire and interview. The
questionnaire used to get parents? perception about bilingual and their way in
developing child?s English ability. After gaining the data, the researcher analyzed
the result of questionnaire. The researcher also conducted interview to support the
result of questionnaire.
The result of this analyze, showed that there are three aspects. The first is
parents? evaluation; it was showed that parents choose bilingual school based on
the quality of the teachers. The second is parents? memory, it was showed that
bilingual in kindergarten can help their children to be better in the next level. The
third is parents? impression; it was showed that bilingual kindergarten is good
institution because the teaching and learning process is very active and interactive.
In conclusion parents? perception is good toward English learning in
bilingual kindergarten. Bilingual kindergarten is strongly accepted by parents in
the village. They were aware with better education for their children, it can be
seen from their explanation, and they take more attention to the quality of the
school itself. It can be seen from three aspects, those are evaluation, memory, and
impression. Based on the research finding, suggestions are provided to other
researchers to conduct some researchers in some field. May be they can study
about the comparing toward two bilingual kindergarten in English
implementation. The researcher realizes that this research is far from perfect, that
is why some related studies in the same area are needed.