UWA Handbook 2025

Unit Overview

Description

This unit enhances students' basic social proficiency in Indonesian at intermediate level, augmenting INDO2403 Indonesian 3 with the emphasis on more sophisticated spoken and written Indonesian. It gives students practical background in both Indonesian language and culture. Students consolidate what they learned in INDO1401 Indonesian 1 and INDO1402 Indonesian 2, especially the grammar, and expand their vocabulary. In addition they 'take a tour' through parts of Indonesia, so that when they go to Indonesia, they know how to behave, how to survive and how to explore its society, culture and environment. The unit aims to equip students with the listening and speaking skills to travel in Indonesia, to enable them to read simple information about places and life in Indonesia and to describe places and travel experiences in prose and conversations.

The unit is for students who have completed INDO1402 Indonesian 2 or INDO1102 Indonesian Beginners II or equivalent, and is available only to Level 2 students who have studied Indonesian for one year at university level. It is run parallel to INDO2403 Indonesian 3 and aims to reinforce and solidify knowledge of grammar, syntax and vocabulary taught in Level 1, to significantly expand vocabulary and oral and written fluency, and to extend student capacity in all four language skills (speaking, listening, writing and reading) of contemporary Indonesian. It broadens Indonesian language and cultural knowledge. A larger, intangible objective is to nurture an interest in Indonesian culture and society.

Credit

6 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Semester 1	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Details for undergraduate courses

• Level 2 core unit in the INDNB Indonesian Studies major sequence
• Level 2 elective

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) describe their everyday experiences and needs—students achieve 'basic social proficiency' (Level 2) as defined by the International Second Language Proficiency Ratings; (2) hold simple conversations in Indonesian; communicate their needs slowly but fluently in the above situations and understand a native speaker's answers, if these are given slowly and clearly; (3) use Indonesian to communicate their needs when travelling in Indonesia and organise travel such as making reservations, buying tickets, following timetables, going shopping, bargaining, finding accommodation, obtaining food and satisfying other survival needs, obtaining medical treatment and informing themselves about travel destinations (e.g. weather, population, sights, activities) through conversation; be familiar with some of the ways in which Indonesian culture and ways of living are different from those commonly found in Australia; and (4) read texts with the help of a dictionary and write simple essays in Indonesian; read and write simple descriptions about places in Indonesia that are often visited by travellers (museums, religious sites, cities, national parks, etc.); write sentences that are grammatically and semantically correct; demonstrate that they can manipulate the passive and active voices in Indonesian, that they can correctly use prepositions, transitive and intransitive verbs, affixation and the negative, and appropriately deploy personal pronouns, request words and imperatives.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) continuous assessment; (2) oral presentations; and (3) written examination. Further information is available in the unit outline.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Theresia Gondoseputro

Unit rules

Prerequisites

INDO1402 Indonesian 2
or INDO1102 Indonesian Beginners II

Co-requisites

INDO2403 Indonesian 3

Incompatibility

INDO2201 Indonesian Intermediate Bridging

Contact hours

typically 2 hours per week

Note

This unit is part of the major for beginners.