International Conference on Languages and Arts
Proceeding of the 3rd ISLA 2014

LANGUAGE LEARNING AND CHARACTER-BUILDING: THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING INDONESIAN IN AUSTRALIA

David Reeve (School of Humanities and Languages, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

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09 Nov 2014

Abstract

To learn a foreign language is to learn that there are other ways of using language than those that we are used to. This can be a shock for people learning a second language for the first time. This teaches students that there are other ways of organising a language and other ways of constructing meaning than those that they were brought up with. As well as providing knowledge about the new language, it teaches learners to see their own first language in a new light. This provides a greater maturity about the state of the world, and about one’s own first language. Whatever the method of language education, this should always apply.

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Universitas Negeri Padang

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Arts Humanities

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Proceeding of the International Seminar on Languages and Arts is published by Faculty of Languages and Arts of State University of Padang (FBS Universitas Negeri ...