Teaching Chinese Language Pronunciation for Early Childhood Education in Jakarta - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.4 No.12, December 2017

Teaching Chinese Language Pronunciation for Early Childhood Education in Jakarta ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104215 588 Downloads 2,023 Views

Author(s)

Febi Nur Biduri

Affiliation(s)

Chinese Language and Culture Department, Darma Persada University, Jakarta, Indonesia.

ABSTRACT

Chinese language is one of the languages that have many users in the world. Chinese language is also one language that is difficult to learn because the pronunciation and the tone are different from other types of languages in the world. Moreover, the forms of writing, in Chinese called Hanzi, are not in the forms of Latin alphabetic. Teachers are the important factor in teaching learning process. In teaching process, teachers need specific method or technique. Particularly in teaching Chinese for early childhood education, in fact, the students are not quite fluent to speak Indonesian language as their first language. As a result, it may become a constraint to expect they will be fluent speakers in Chinese. This current research was conducted since methods in teaching Chinese particularly for early childhood education are rarely found. This research then explored the methods of teaching Chinese used for early childhood education. The significance of the research was to generate method of teaching Chinese particularly in pronunciation for students between the age of 4-7 years old whose first language is Indonesian. The objective of this research is to find out the effective teaching Chinese Language method that is used for early childhood education in Indonesia. The research method was participant classroom action, in which conducted a research during 1 semester from 10 January 2017 to 30 June 2017 at KSPA Kindergarten Jakarta. The respondents were 20 kindergarten students of 10 girls and 10 boys between 4-7 years old and 2 teachers. The data were then analyzed qualitatively by describing classroom observations. The result of this research is that Chinese teaching method suitable for beginner level for Indonesian speakers in Indonesia is using song, poetry, storytelling and question and answer technique. The use of this method has an impact on the increasing interest of students in learning.

KEYWORDS

Study Chinese Language, Early Childhood Methods, Pronunciation Technique, Fluent Speaking Chinese

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Biduri, F. (2017) Teaching Chinese Language Pronunciation for Early Childhood Education in Jakarta. Open Access Library Journal, 4, 1-9. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104215.

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