RECONSTRUCTION OF BASIC KNOWLEDGE ON LEARNING BIPA FOR DEVELOPING PROFESSIONALISM OF BIPA TEACHERS

Abstract

This study aims to describe aspects of learning Indonesian for foreign students (BIPA) that
need to be understood by someone who will teach BIPA. The basic knowledge can be
utilized by the teacher to select teaching-learning strategies and teaching materials that
required by BIPA students. To gain those understanding, this study effort to collect data
about an information on the implementation of learning BIPA from the real class of
teaching-learning BIPA. By using a qualitative approach with a model of ethnographic
analysis, the study obtain findings that (a) foreign students studying BIPA has
characteristics that different both in terms of learning styles and cultural backgrounds, (b)
the implementation of learning BIPA more emphasis on the communicative considering
learning styles of BIPA students, (c) learning approach of BIPA need to consider to the
norms of pedagogical of language learning for adult learners so that the topic of language
teaching materials must be selected based on the needs of adults in communication, and (d)
the cultural aspects in the form of cultural knowledge, cultural behaviors, and cultural
objects made as teaching material in learning BIPA by using a variety of learning
techniques