Course Description
Introduces students to advanced Indonesian, stressing oral fluency, written expression, and listening and reading comprehension. Students will also learn advanced grammar of Indonesian based on real-life contexts.
Athena Title
Advanced Indonesian I
Prerequisite
INDO 2004 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students are expected to achieve the following abilities: • Ability to speak advanced level of Indonesian, producing sentences for congratulating, expressing agreement, giving direction, telling the present activities, past events, and future plans, retelling the story, shopping, or asking for assistance. • Ability to comprehend complex sentences and to perform functions, such as ordering food in restaurants, handling transactions in the market, asking for and giving directions in Indonesian. • Ability to read Indonesian detailed literary and descriptive texts. • Ability to write compositions about past experiences, future plans, immediate surroundings, and other topics in the forms of a journal, letter, and advertisement. Students will be involved in various language learning activities both inside and outside the classroom. Students will also have opportunities to learn the language through the use of technology, such as multimedia lab, the internet, and videos. Indonesian will be the language of instruction.
Topical Outline
Week 1: Introduction to the Class + Review Week 2: Old Friends, Indonesian Grammar in Context (1) Grammar: Nominalization of verbs using -nya (1.1) ; Indefinite pronouns formed from question words plus saja (1.2) Week 3: Old Friends (continued) Grammar: review of passive verb forms (1.3) ; Review of the active and passive verb forms (1.4) Week 4: Two Friends (2) Grammar: The yang relative clause (2.1); possessive noun phrase (2.2) Week 5: Two Friends (continued) Grammar: Yang clauses with passive verbs (2.3); yang clauses with active and passive verbs (2.4) Week 6: Starting a New Life (3) Grammar: The locative function of the verbal suffix [-] l (3.1 and 3.2) Week 7: Indonesian Literature (short story: “The Origin of Lake Toba”) Grammar: The preposition “on” (3.3) Week 8: Indonesian Literature (short story: “Timun Mas”) Grammar: Prepositions: for, to, as (3.4) Week 9: Problems Students Face (4); Indonesian Literature (short story: “Bawang Merah & Bawang Putih”) Grammar: Dialects of Bahasa Indonesian (4.1) Week 10: Problems Students Face (continued); Indonesian Literature (short story: “Ande Ande Lumut”) Grammar: Narrating from two points of reference (4.2) Week 11: Indonesian Literature (short story: “Keong Emas”) Grammar: Shifting time frames (4.3) Week 12: Indonesian Literature (short story: “Malin Kundang”) Grammar: Iterative suffixes (4.4) Week 13: Lia and Her Family (5); Indonesian Literature (short story: “Lutung Kasarung”) Grammar: The conjunctions for and so (5.1) Week 14: Lia and Her Family (continued); Readings in Indonesian (The Origin of the City of Surabaya) Grammar: The benefactive function of the verbal suffix [-]kan (5.2) Week 15: Lia and Her Family (continued) Grammar: The adverb se-adjective + adjective-nya (5.3); The superlative adverb with the expression of quantity (5.4)