• Offered by School of Culture History and Language
  • ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
  • Classification Transitional
  • Course subject Indonesian
  • Areas of interest Asian Languages
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Ross Tapsell
  • Mode of delivery Online or In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2018
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An introduction to spoken Indonesian covering the core vocabulary and grammar of the language, question-answer interaction and a practical command of four commonly occurring conversational topics/situations.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

On satisfying the requirements of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills at an Introductory level of Indonesian to:

1. Recognise and pronounce the full set of standard Indonesian phonemes and use patterns of stress and intonation.
2. Use an active vocabulary of around 350 items.
3. Recognise and produce phrase and sentence structures that enable them to conduct basic conversations, write sentences and simple paragraphs, and read simplified texts.
4. Converse and write in contexts such as expressing likes and dislikes, asking and telling about family, asking and giving directions, asking about and describing one’s daily routine, and talking about travel plans.
5. Demonstrate a cultural understanding of such topics as Indonesian foods, modes of transport, daily activities, and major islands and regions; display an understanding of cultural principles underlying ways of greeting, making introductory small talk, and choosing topics of conversation.

Other Information

Equivalent CEFR A1; ACTFL novice high

This is a co-taught course. Any cap on enrolments in one course applies to both courses combined.

Indicative Assessment

Written tests x 4: 30% (LOs 2,3,4,5)

Quick Quizzes x 4: 10% (LOs 2,3)

Instructor's assessment: 10% (LOs 1,2,3,4,5)

Mid oral exam 20% (LOs 1,2,3,4,5)

Final oral exam: 30% (LOs 1,2,3,4,5)

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Requisite and Incompatibility

This course is incompatible with INDN1002, INDN1005 and INDN6105.

Prescribed Texts

The course textbook will be available in electronic format on the course Wattle site.

Specialisations

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2018 $3180
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2018 $4860
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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The list of offerings for future years is indicative only.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
On-campus
2245 19 Feb 2018 27 Feb 2018 31 Mar 2018 25 May 2018 In Person N/A
On-line
3799 19 Feb 2018 27 Feb 2018 31 Mar 2018 25 May 2018 Online N/A

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