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1. Dealing With Culture in the Indonesian Language InstructionBy Amelia J.R. Liwe University of Wisconsin-Madisonajliwe@wisc.eduPresented at the COTSEAL Roundtable, AAS Annual ConferenceBoston, March 24, 2007

2. Introduction Culture as a challenge in the Indonesian language instruction: • The understanding of “culture” • The very notion of “Indonesia” from a historical perspective • Culture in language teaching as a pedagogic question

3. Background • Indonesian culture: an imagined identity and a perceived reality • Malay as the root of Bahasa Indonesia • The diversity of language and culture in Indonesia

4. Integrating Culture into Indonesian Language Instruction: Pedagogic Principles and Some Practices Hyme’s factors: • Setting • Participants • Ends • Act sequence • Key • Instrumentalities • Norms of interactions and interpretation • Genre

5. Integrating Culture into Indonesian Language Instruction: Pedagogic Principles and Some Practices Problems and paradoxes: • Multicultural classroom • Cognition and communication • Pedagogy of sociocultural competence • Teacher on the line • Cultural stereotype

6. Integrating Culture into Indonesian Language Instruction: Pedagogic Principles and Some Practices Some practices: • Teacher represents the target culture • Teacher teaches about the target culture • Teacher integrates culture into language activities

7. Conclusion The debates: • Which segment of target culture to teach • Which skills or language strategies to teach so the students will be able to cope with the diversity and the complexity of Indonesian language and culture