BAHASA INDONESIA

LANGUAGES

Bahasa Indonesia:
The Indonesian
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Language
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Depending on how you define a language and how you
count its number of speakers, today Malay-Indonesian
ranks around sixth or seventh in size among the world’s
languages. With dialect variations it is spoken by more than
200 million people in the modern states of Indonesia,
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. It is also an important
vernacular in the southern provinces of Thailand, in East
Timor and among the Malay people of Australia’s Cocos
Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean. It is understood in
parts of the Sulu area of the southern Philippines and
traces of it are to be found among people of Malay descent
in Sri Lanka, South Africa and other places.
 Indonesian (IND) Course Placement
Offerings Test
Who needs to take the
Indonesian Courses at the one, two, and three Placement Test?Language
hundred level are intended for non-native speakers subjects are organized in a
who wish to become reasonable proficient in the progressive sequence of
units. Entry and exit points
Indonesian language. Courses at the four hundred
are determined by the
level are open to both native and non-native speakers student’s background in the
of Indonesian or Malay. For a language, placement
testing, prerequisites, or at
comprehensive list of offered courses, refer to the
the discretion of the
catalog.Our language courses are based on the language program.
theory that language learners need to notice the Students normally progress
language forms in a natural context and then through the subjects in
consecutive order. Spring
practice using the targeted structures in a
entry is also possible into
meaningful and communicative way. This means Indonesian language
learners should be exposed to a variety of texts, classes with even numbers,
focusing first on the meaning, then analyzing the subject to appropriate prior
experience and approval
texts for appropriate language patterns, and finally
from the coordinator of the
practicing using the patterns themselves in a Indonesian language
similar context. program.
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