BIPA Textbook: a Cultural Content Analysis of Basic Indonesian (an Introductory Course Book)

PRASTIWI, CHYNTIA HERU WORO and Purnama, Yuniarta Ita BIPA Textbook: a Cultural Content Analysis of Basic Indonesian (an Introductory Course Book). PROSPECTS, Jurnal Humaniora, Sains, Pendidikan dan Pengajaran.

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Abstract

Culture plays its urgent role in language teaching. BIPA (Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing or Indonesian Language for Foreign Speaker) is important profiency for foreign students who are taking academic learning in Indonesia. Teaching BIPA is aimed to make the teaching and learning process run easily. Using Indonesian language appropriately needs the understanding of Indonesian culture because culture would help speaker in using language appropriately in a given contex. This article reports the result of the study analyzing the cultural content of Basic Indonesian textbook, including (1) Describing how the cultural contents presented in the Basic Indonesian textbook, (2) Identifying categories of cultures which are presented in the Basic Indonesian textbook. By using qualitative research, the writers get the data from documents of pictures, comics, dialogues reading text, writing task, speaking task and listening one which are presented in each unit of Basic Indonesian textbook. However, they also employ the element of quantitative in the form of the way the data are recorded into percentages. The findings describe the cultural contents presented in the Basic Indonesian textbook dominated by pictures and reading text. Secondly, the categories of cultures which are presented in the Basic Indonesian textbook dominated by target culture (Indonesia culture). Keywords: Cultural Content Analysis, Cultural Categories, Media of Culture Presentation, BIPA

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