Analysis of the Adequacy of Mandarin Textbooks in Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200303.067How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mandarin textbook, achievement, insufficient, basic competencies, conformity

Abstract

Chinese language known as the Mandarin language has been widely taught officially in Indonesia since the year 2000 after been forbidden for about 32 years. The support of government is revealed in the emerge of the curriculum and its syllabus. Indonesian government decided to put the Mandarin language as one of the lessons in The National Curriculum since the year of 2004 (Competencies Based Curriculum) for Senior High School until now. But unfortunately, there is no satisfying textbook that can be fulfilled teacher and student needs. This paper describes the achievement and insufficient of Mandarin language teaching materials published in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta from the year 2000 until 2018. The field of this study includes the numbers and kinds of teaching materials, the performance, and content, and also whether they could be a good source to achieve communication skills as the final goal of language teaching. All data is collected by field observation to some bookstores and online bookstores, questionnaires and also an interview with teachers. The data analysis result shows that there are significant numbers of Mandarin teaching materials covered by a good looking and eye-catching cover and also so many kinds of teaching materials separated by language skills. Besides these facts, there is a lot of insufficient regarding the existence of a textbook that can be used in the classroom. This insufficient especially regarding the numbers of the textbook and also the material content that there is no conformity with basic competencies listed in the Curriculum, especially Curriculum 2013 which is applied in recent years.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hudiyekti Prasetyaningtyas
AU  - Yumna Rasyid
AU  - Endry Boeriswati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/06
TI  - Analysis of the Adequacy of Mandarin Textbooks in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Multidisciplinary Conference on Education, Technology, and Engineering (IMCETE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 277
EP  - 280
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200303.067
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200303.067
ID  - Prasetyaningtyas2020
ER  -