PERSEPSI MAHASISWA TERHADAP PENGAJAR PENUTUR JATI DALAM PEMBELAJARAN KETERAMPILAN BERBICARA BAHASA MANDARIN

Abstract

Recently in the era of globalization, mastery of foreign languages ​​is immensely needed. In addition to English, a foreign language that has been recognized as an international language is Chinese. Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ) is one of the educational institutions that opened the Chinese Language Education Study Program/Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Mandarin (PSPBM) since 2014. In 2015, PSPBM UNJ began to involve native Chinese speaker teachers to teach Chinese speaking skills. Native speaker teachers are one of the influential factors in foreign language teaching, merely because native speaker teachers are considered as a role model of perfect pronunciation, regularity of language structure and vocabulary, also the performer of communicative learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the student's perception of the native Chinese speaker in teaching Chinese speaking skills which includes three aspects, namely pedagogical aspects, linguistic aspects, and socio-cultural aspects. This research is a descriptive research with survey method. The results showed that the perception of PSPBM UNJ students towards native Chinese-speaking teachers was generally positive, students generally assumed that the teachers met the indicators contained in the pedagogical aspects, linguistic aspects, and socio-cultural aspects. Positive perceptions of native Chinese teachers have a good influence on the Mandarin language learning process at PSPBM UNJ.