AN ANALYSIS OF HOW LEARNERS OF INDONESIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUIRE COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS IN BAHASA INDONESIA.

Undergraduate thesis, BINUS

School of English Literature
Faculty of Language and Culture

Author : MARTIUS, MARTIUS and Wiannastiti, S.Pd., M.Pd.,(2013)

ABSTRACT
This paper discusses an analysis of how learners of Indonesian as a foreign language acquire colloquial expressions in Bahasa Indonesia. The purpose of this research are: first, to find out the media mostly influenced the use of informal language and the second, to find out what colloquial are mostly used by the learners. The data was taken from 10 respondents (foreigners who stay in Jakarta) who answered the questionnaires with 5 close questions and 20 of list of Indonesian colloquial words in sentences and also the media column in tabular form. Then, the
data were classified based on the respondent identity, the idea about colloquial of Bahasa Indonesia, the list of Indonesian colloquial, the media to learn the Indonesian colloquial, the total media, and the last to find if there are another colloquial that the learners know beside the colloquial from the list before. This research showed that the respondent who knows about the Indonesian colloquial is they who came to Indonesia for the purpose of studying, not for a vacation. The media is very important in helping the respondent to discover new words. Then,
the most colloquial words that respondents know are kok,
nih, sih, yah, sip, wah, and aduh with the percentage 5 from 5 respondents.

Keywords:informal language, Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesian colloquial, foreigners