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Languages and Literature of China and South East Asia
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge of the most important Indonesian language structures: phonology, morphology and vocabulary of written Indonesian. Topics of Indonesian culture will be part of the Program. Reading and production of a summary of a folktale or a topic of Indonesian culture is the final objective to be achieved at the end of the course.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge of the most important structures of the Indonesian language structures: phonology, morphology and vocabulary of written Indonesian. Basic elements of Indonesian culture are part of the program. At the end of the course, the student is expected to demonstrate the ability to apply the necessary skills and methodological tools for the production of elementary level texts in Indonesian and translation into Italian. The student should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of issues related to the morphological structure of Indonesian and demonstrate the ability to develop discussions concerning the situation of linguistic and cultural diversity in Indonesia.
ADDITIONAL EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Autonomy of judgment:
Students must be able to manage the language skills they have acquired with a critical attitude and autonomy of judgment, especially in distinguishing between different linguistic registers and formulating evaluations on various types of reading material.
Communication skills:
Students must be able to communicate clearly on various basic topics of conversation in Indonesian and use the methodological tools acquired effectively.
Learning skills:
Students must have developed the skills necessary to undertake further studies with a good degree of autonomy.
Course Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
The Indonesian Language course I includes annual face-to-face lectures and seminar and laboratory activities. For tutorials, in addition to face-to-face classroom lectures, the e-learning platform operated by the University Language Center of L'Orientale University (CLAOR), based on the open source Moodle platform, will be used to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services, as well as remote exchanges and distance collaboration. Furthermore, the language practice sessions conducted by the Native language expert (CEL) make a full contribution to the achievement of the course's intended learning outcomes.
Assessment Methods
Regarding the mode of assessment, students during the year will be involved in seminar and/or laboratory activities, in which they will have to choose a topic in Indonesian language, or linguistics on which to report in class through an oral presentation or term paper. These activities will form an integral part of the final exam. The final examination consists of a written test and an oral test. The final written test, preparatory to the oral one, is conducted on a Moodle platform and consists of solving a series of comprehension, vocabulary and grammar exercises, as well as a small part of production. At the oral exam, the student must demonstrate the ability to use the grammatical and communicative knowledge and skills acquired during the lectures and language practice, must be able to talk about the topics covered during the course, and in particular consists of reading, perform morphological and syntactic analysis and attempt a translation of an Indonesian language text, solve oral exercises and engage in conversation on various topical issues. Part of the exam will focus on issues in basics Indonesian linguistics.
The final oral test will be held partly in Indonesian and partly in Italian (and in English in the presence of non-italophone students).
The evaluation criterion adopted will take into account the result of the written test, and for the oral part of the communicative ability, the correct use of grammatical and lexical structures, and the coherence, ability to analyze and discuss on the cultural and linguistic topics addressed during the course of study.
Texts
Rafferty, Burns and Argazali-Thomas 2014. Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia: Volume 1. University of Hawaii Press
Santa Maria L 1984. Il rapporto tra lingua nazionale e lingue locali in Indonesia. Annali, 44.
Soenoto Rivai Siti & Antonia Soriente. 2019. Corso di indonesiano. Milano: Hoepli.
Sumbangsari Sumbi. Cerita rakyat nusantara.Jakarta: Wahyu Media
Recommended texts for further study
AA.VV. 1998. Indonesian Heritage. Vol. 10. Language and Literature. Archipelago Press. Singapore.
BADAN Bahasa . Lentera Indonesia I
Kozok, Uli and George Quinn. The Indonesian way. Interactive online course of Indonesian. University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Robson, Stuart, 2004. Welcome to Indonesian. Tuttle Publishing
Sneddon, James. 2003. The Indonesian Language. Its history and role in modern society. University of South Wales Press. Sydney.
Sneddon, James. 1996. Indonesian reference grammar. Allen and Unwin. Sydney.
Contents
The course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge of the most important Indonesian language structures (phonology, morphology and vocabulary) written and spoken and Indonesian culture. Elements of language history are part of the course.
1. Introduction to the Indonesian language: history, Indonesian phonetics and dictionary use
2. Alphabet and spelling
3. Introduce yourself
4. Formulation of questions
5. Personal pronouns and Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
6. Prepositions
7. Directions
8. Modal verbs
9. Ordinal and cardinal numerals
10. Days of the week and months of the year
11. The Indonesian affixation system
12. Acronyms
13. Terms of kinship with allocutive function
14 Negation
15. Aspectual markers
16. Lexicon related to body parts
17. Professions
18. Verbal prefixes: introduction to BER- ME- DI-
19. Passive with DI- and passive with 0.
20. Imperative with -lah; negative imperative
21. Nominal prefixes PE(N)- KE- -AN -AN
22. MEN-KAN MEN -I
23. Notes on reduplication
24. Timetable
25. The degrees of the adjective
26. Relative pronoun YANG
27. SE- affix.
28. Linguistic and cultural plurality in Indonesia. The relationship between national language and local languages.
29 Cultural background of various elements of Indonesian culture: music, dances, climate, traditional medicine, food, nature and environment, etc.