HOW JAPANESE COMMUNICATION IS SEEN BY JAPANESE LEARNERS IN INDONESIA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION (Efforts to Improve Cross-Cultural Understanding)
Susi Widianti
Departemen Pendidikan Bahasa Jepang
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
This research is a study of the development of cross-cultural understanding of Japanese-Indonesian by Japanese language education students at the Indonesian University of Education. It describes how students perceive communication values in Japanese culture and how CCU-learning can change the way they perceive Japanese culture. This research uses descriptive analysis method with role observation and questionnaires about understanding Japanese cultural values. Class observations were conducted on 30 students by observing student responses and activities during learning, and observing the development of students understanding of Japanese culture. From the results of the analysis, there are four main things. First, before participating in learning most students do not understand Japanese communication. Second, students recieve many new knowledge about invisible culture (norms) in Japanese society such as values (basabasi), ambiguity, differences in ways of thinking, customary daily habits, and so on. Third, students are aware of differences in Japanese habits of life, especially in communication. Fourth, students have the provision of a new understanding of Japanese communication before they entering the workforce.
Keywords: communication, cross-cultural communication, Japanese culture, Japanese learner
Topic: International Symposium on Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Religious Studies