Overview

This topic develops beginner and near-beginner students' understanding of contemporary Indonesian language, society and culture. Functional fluency will be developed through speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students will acquire basic vocabulary and an understanding of sentence patterns required for simple communication in everyday language, and to proceed to higher levels … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Develop acquired skills in spoken and written Indonesian
  • Increase students' abilities in the four macro-areas of speaking listening, reading and writing
  • Provide students will an increased range of communicative social skills

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Identify detailed information from short, simple written texts and spoken passages in Indonesian, of different personal and social contexts
2.
Use basic Indonesian to produce original texts in speech and in writing, in a greater range of personal and social contexts
3.
Produce an expanded range of basic grammatical and syntactical structures and vocabulary through interpretation in Indonesian
4.
Use new and specific features of Indonesian culture, as they are expressed through language: celebrations, shopping, travel, gastronomy, etc.

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Other topic information

No previous knowledge of the language is assumed. Students with some background knowledge of the language (either native or non-native speaker) must consult the topic co-ordinator if they wish to enrol in an Indonesian language topic.