Students’ Perspective toward the Importance of Indonesian Language and Culture Course

Menik Winiharti, Wiwik Andreani

2018

Abstract

The presence of the course of Indonesian language and culture in classes nowadays is often questioned. Is it still important? Is it useful? This paper aims to find out the extent to which the course of Indonesian language and culture is still considered important to be delivered in the classrooms, especially to college students majoring in English. Another goal is to know whether the presence of a lecturer is needed since students can easily search and find information in the internet. A set of questions is distributed to 66 English department students of semester 2 who take the course of Indonesian language and culture. The main question is whether Indonesian language and culture delivered in the classroom are still important and necessary. The analysis is done mainly based on their answers to portray their perspectives on the subject. The results show that to some extent most students consider that the course is important and the role of a lecturer in delivering the lecture is also important even though the internet helps them obtain information. Further implication is that the course of Indonesian language and culture requires a lecturer who is internet literate and able to use some modes as a tool for teaching and learning activities.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Winiharti M. and Andreani W. (2018). Students’ Perspective toward the Importance of Indonesian Language and Culture Course. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 279-283. DOI: 10.5220/0010006500002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Menik Winiharti and Wiwik Andreani},
title={Students’ Perspective toward the Importance of Indonesian Language and Culture Course},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={279-283},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010006500002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Students’ Perspective toward the Importance of Indonesian Language and Culture Course
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Winiharti M.
AU - Andreani W.
PY - 2018
SP - 279
EP - 283
DO - 10.5220/0010006500002917