Persepsi dan Produksi Tuturan Bahasa Indonesia Bagi Penutur Asing oleh Penutur Jati Bahasa Inggris

Speakers of two or more languages or known as multilinguist who could produce speech yet differently from their perception. A language which used outside their social context generally known as foreign language. The Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia has since 2017 held a program titled Apresiasi PemenangLomba Berpidato dan Bercerita (APLBB BIPA) which awardees are from around the globe. In 2019, the awardees were the winner of speech and story-telling competition in Indonesian Embassies and Consulates from twenty-one countries, including the L1 English-speaker from Australia, and the United States of America. L2 speakers often produce different speech than they have perceived, in this case, with the awardees of APLBB BIPA L1 English-speakers. Based on perception and speech production analysis, it is found that phonological variables such as vocals, consonants, and sound-added vocals produced by L1 English-speaker awardees appeared. This means that they perceived the sounds differently from their speech productions

Dominasi Struktur Kalimat dan Pilihan Kata dalam Esai Mahasiswa Asing pada Tes Kemampuan Berbahasa Indonesia

This study aims to describe the sentence structure and choice of words in foreign students' essays on the Indonesian language proficiency test. This research is qualitative with descriptive method. The data source of this research is the essay of foreign students who took the Indonesian language proficiency test. The research data are Indonesian words and sentences contained in the student essays. The data analysis technique was carried out through the steps, namely (a) data identification, (b) data classification, and (c) data interpretation. The results showed that foreign students were able to write simple sentences in Indonesian, but had difficulty understanding the affix process.