$52.49
Author: Rafferty Ellen
Brand: University of Hawaii Press
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Pages: 264
Details: Product Description
Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia (It’s Cool to Speak Indonesian) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic grammatical structures of Indonesian in three richly illustrated volumes. Although numerous varieties of Indonesian exist throughout the archipelago, the authors use a relaxed, conversational style of Indonesian acceptable for interethnic communication among educated native speakers and commonly used in the media. Students engage in task-based activities set in real-life situations as they speak and write in Indonesian, thus acquiring grammatical accuracy while immersing themselves in the cultural context.
Each lesson revolves around a grammatical construction presented in a conversation, narrative, or letter. Online recordings are available, allowing students to reinforce the learning of the grammatical forms. Lessons first offer the student the opportunity to see and hear the grammar in use, then to practice the grammatical form, and finally to read an explanation of the grammatical rule in English. Numerous illustrations and photographs aid in learning the language and culture without excessive use of translation. In addition, cultural notes at the end of each lesson allow students to explore the relationship between language use and socio-cultural values and customs.
Audio files for this volume may be downloaded in MP3 format at www.indonesiantextbooks.wisc.edu
About the Author
Ellen Rafferty is professor of Indonesian language and literature in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Erlin Barnard is the Pedagogy Coordinator for Less Commonly Taught Languages at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Lucy Suharni teaches Indonesian at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Molly F. Burns has several years of language teaching experience in the U.S. and abroad, most recently teaching English as a second language at Portland Community College and Portland State University in Oregon.
Shintia Argazali-Thomas is a librarian at the Tomah Public Library in Tomah, Wisconsin.
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Introduction
This text, Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia, provides the beginning and intermediate-level language learner with contextualized presentations of basic Indonesian grammatical structures followed by exercises. The text is based on the pedagogy of the communicative language teaching approach, which promotes the value of communicative practice for gaining proficiency in producing correct grammatical structures. Each lesson begins with a presentation section in which a contextualized example of a grammatical structure demonstrates how and when that structure is used. All of the presentation sections and the listening comprehension exercises are available to the student in audio format. The contextualized presentation sections are followed by activities supported by illustrations and photographs to
stimulate the learner’s practice of the grammar structure that is being taught. Thus, this text first offers the student an opportunity to experience (hear and/or see) the grammar in use, then to extensively practice it, and finally to read an explanation in English of the grammatical rule.
The grammatical structures presented in this text are ordered in terms of difficulty with volume one aimed at the novice to intermediate-low learner, volume two at the intermediate-mid level learner, and volume three at the advanced level learner. Volumes one and two contain six chapters each with five lessons in each chapter. Volume three contains ten chapters, each composed of four lessons. The chapters in volumes one and two cohere around a set of characters and themes; this sociocultural contextualization allows the students to learn language patterns within a social framework. Volume three moves away from these characters, exploring topics of wider social intere
Release Date: 30-04-2014
Package Dimensions: 15x252x561
