Introducing Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA): Method and challenges of teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL)

This research describes the method and challenges in teaching Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA) or Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL) to foreign learners. Effective teaching BIPA relies on various factors, including teaching methods. BIPA teachers should consider effective teaching meth...

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Main Author: Tira Nur Fitria
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Language:English
Published: Himpunan Pengembang Kurikulum Indonesia (HIPKIN) 2023-08-01
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Online Access:https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/JIK/article/view/60374
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description This research describes the method and challenges in teaching Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA) or Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL) to foreign learners. Effective teaching BIPA relies on various factors, including teaching methods. BIPA teachers should consider effective teaching methods for learners’ language acquisition. Teachers can build a pleasant initial atmosphere in the BIPA class using direct methods, grammar translation, audio-linguistic, community-based learning, and communicative approaches. Several obstacles may occur during teaching BIPA. The internal aspects are the teacher, learners, teaching and learning process, media, and teaching materials. Indonesian learners’ challenges are pronunciation/spelling, limited practice time, self-confidence, student motivation/interest, age factors, personality/characteristics, and student abilities. Teachers’ challenges are related to teaching experience, low competence, and urgent needs of the teacher. The other obstacles are the availability of teaching materials in the textbooks, audio/video, and additional online sources of BIPA teaching materials, time teaching, and BIPA curriculum. The external factors are inadequate educational support facilities and infrastructure, cross-cultural learning, different perspectives, students’ cultural and linguistic background, self-adaptation, heterogeneous class situations, search for cultural similarities, and students’ needs, environment, overseas administration, place of residence, weather, natural conditions, and geography of the country, even government policy.   Abstrak Penelitian ini mendeskripsikan metode dan tantangan dalam pengajaran Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA) atau Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL) kepada pembelajar asing. Pengajaran BIPA yang efektif bergantung pada berbagai faktor, termasuk metode pengajaran. Guru BIPA harus mempertimbangkan metode pengajaran yang efektif untuk pemerolehan bahasa pembelajar. Guru dapat membangun suasana awal yang menyenangkan di kelas BIPA dengan menggunakan metode langsung, tata bahasa terjemahan, audio-linguistik, pembelajaran berbasis masyarakat, dan pendekatan komunikatif. Beberapa kendala dapat terjadi selama pengajaran BIPA. Aspek internal adalah guru, peserta didik, proses belajar mengajar, media, dan bahan ajar. Tantangan pembelajar bahasa Indonesia adalah dalam pengucapan/ejaan, waktu latihan yang terbatas, kepercayaan diri, motivasi/minat siswa, faktor usia, kepribadian/karakteristik siswa, dan kemampuan siswa. Tantangan guru terkait dengan pengalaman mengajar, rendahnya kompetensi guru, dan kebutuhan guru yang mendesak. Kendala lainnya adalah ketersediaan bahan ajar berupa buku teks, audio/video, dan tambahan sumber online bahan ajar BIPA, waktu pengajaran, dan kurikulum BIPA. Faktor eksternal adalah sarana dan prasarana penunjang pendidikan yang kurang memadai, pembelajaran lintas budaya, perbedaan perspektif, latar belakang budaya dan bahasa siswa, penyesuaian diri, situasi kelas yang heterogen, pencarian kesamaan budaya, dan kebutuhan siswa, lingkungan, administrasi luar negeri, tempat tempat tinggal, cuaca, kondisi alam, dan geografi negara, bahkan kebijakan pemerintah. Kata Kunci: Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing; Bahasa Indonesia sebagai Bahasa Asing; BIPA; IFL; mengajar Bahasa Indonesia untuk Pembelajar Asing
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spelling doaj.art-c9cd77dde324447eb1cc4341fa47b03f2023-12-31T01:55:20ZengHimpunan Pengembang Kurikulum Indonesia (HIPKIN)Inovasi Kurikulum1829-67502798-13632023-08-0120220522410.17509/jik.v20i2.6037422555Introducing Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA): Method and challenges of teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL)Tira Nur Fitria0Institut Teknologi Bisnis AAS IndonesiaThis research describes the method and challenges in teaching Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA) or Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL) to foreign learners. Effective teaching BIPA relies on various factors, including teaching methods. BIPA teachers should consider effective teaching methods for learners’ language acquisition. Teachers can build a pleasant initial atmosphere in the BIPA class using direct methods, grammar translation, audio-linguistic, community-based learning, and communicative approaches. Several obstacles may occur during teaching BIPA. The internal aspects are the teacher, learners, teaching and learning process, media, and teaching materials. Indonesian learners’ challenges are pronunciation/spelling, limited practice time, self-confidence, student motivation/interest, age factors, personality/characteristics, and student abilities. Teachers’ challenges are related to teaching experience, low competence, and urgent needs of the teacher. The other obstacles are the availability of teaching materials in the textbooks, audio/video, and additional online sources of BIPA teaching materials, time teaching, and BIPA curriculum. The external factors are inadequate educational support facilities and infrastructure, cross-cultural learning, different perspectives, students’ cultural and linguistic background, self-adaptation, heterogeneous class situations, search for cultural similarities, and students’ needs, environment, overseas administration, place of residence, weather, natural conditions, and geography of the country, even government policy.   Abstrak Penelitian ini mendeskripsikan metode dan tantangan dalam pengajaran Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA) atau Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL) kepada pembelajar asing. Pengajaran BIPA yang efektif bergantung pada berbagai faktor, termasuk metode pengajaran. Guru BIPA harus mempertimbangkan metode pengajaran yang efektif untuk pemerolehan bahasa pembelajar. Guru dapat membangun suasana awal yang menyenangkan di kelas BIPA dengan menggunakan metode langsung, tata bahasa terjemahan, audio-linguistik, pembelajaran berbasis masyarakat, dan pendekatan komunikatif. Beberapa kendala dapat terjadi selama pengajaran BIPA. Aspek internal adalah guru, peserta didik, proses belajar mengajar, media, dan bahan ajar. Tantangan pembelajar bahasa Indonesia adalah dalam pengucapan/ejaan, waktu latihan yang terbatas, kepercayaan diri, motivasi/minat siswa, faktor usia, kepribadian/karakteristik siswa, dan kemampuan siswa. Tantangan guru terkait dengan pengalaman mengajar, rendahnya kompetensi guru, dan kebutuhan guru yang mendesak. Kendala lainnya adalah ketersediaan bahan ajar berupa buku teks, audio/video, dan tambahan sumber online bahan ajar BIPA, waktu pengajaran, dan kurikulum BIPA. Faktor eksternal adalah sarana dan prasarana penunjang pendidikan yang kurang memadai, pembelajaran lintas budaya, perbedaan perspektif, latar belakang budaya dan bahasa siswa, penyesuaian diri, situasi kelas yang heterogen, pencarian kesamaan budaya, dan kebutuhan siswa, lingkungan, administrasi luar negeri, tempat tempat tinggal, cuaca, kondisi alam, dan geografi negara, bahkan kebijakan pemerintah. Kata Kunci: Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing; Bahasa Indonesia sebagai Bahasa Asing; BIPA; IFL; mengajar Bahasa Indonesia untuk Pembelajar Asinghttps://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/JIK/article/view/60374bahasa indonesia bagi penutur asingbipaforeign learnersiflindonesian as a foreign languageteaching indonesian
spellingShingle Tira Nur Fitria
Introducing Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA): Method and challenges of teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL)
Inovasi Kurikulum
bahasa indonesia bagi penutur asing
bipa
foreign learners
ifl
indonesian as a foreign language
teaching indonesian
title Introducing Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA): Method and challenges of teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL)
title_full Introducing Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA): Method and challenges of teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL)
title_fullStr Introducing Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA): Method and challenges of teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL)
title_full_unstemmed Introducing Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA): Method and challenges of teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL)
title_short Introducing Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA): Method and challenges of teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL)
title_sort introducing bahasa indonesia bagi penutur asing bipa method and challenges of teaching indonesian as a foreign language ifl
topic bahasa indonesia bagi penutur asing
bipa
foreign learners
ifl
indonesian as a foreign language
teaching indonesian
url https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/JIK/article/view/60374
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