COMMUNICATION MODEL ON LEARNING INDONESIAN FOR FOREIGNER THROUGH LOCAL CULTURE

Abstract

This article discusses a new perspective of Indonesian communication learning model for foreigner, using descriptive method. The background of this article is due to an old paradigm, that mutual understanding can be achieved because the communicator and the communicant have similarities frame of reference (FOR) and field of experience (FOE). The more the similarities, the greater the mutual understanding can be realized. Conversely, if there are many differences in FOR and FOE, mutual understanding will be difficult to be formed. Differences may occur because communicators come from different culture and language. In the case of learning Indonesian for foreign speaker in Dharmasiswa program in Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta, mutual understanding can be established even though there are some differences in FOR and FOE among communicators and communicants. In the process of communication, mutual understanding can be established if communicators and communicants have equal motivations that causes the actors are eager and active to encode and decode the interchanging communication.. The messages of communication that used to grow motivation in the process of learning language for foreigners are the Indonesian local culture. It can be concluded that motivation plays important role for the success of learning Indonesian for the foreign speakers.