23 January 2025
Sulisintia Harahap
The Director of the Internationalization and Global Partnerships Directorate at USU, Prof. Dr. Himsar Ambarita, S.T., M.T., expressed his support for the activity. “When I studied in Japan, we were also required to present to school students there. The challenge of presenting in Japanese to students was a great motivation to learn the language. I am confident this activity will help accelerate the KNB students' ability to master the Indonesian language,” he said.
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The excursion study was led by Prof. Dr. Rudy Sofyan, S.S., M.Hum., Deputy Chair of the BIPA Program at FIB USU, and Rachmad Fadillah Maha, S.S., M.Si., a BIPA facilitator at FIB USU. The main activity was a 30-minute presentation by the BIPA participants in Indonesian in front of 9th-grade students. After the presentation, a discussion and Q&A session followed. The KNB students successfully answered a variety of questions from the middle school students in Indonesian.
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According to Prof. Dr. Dra. T. Thyrhaya Zein, M.A., Chair of the BIPA Program at FIB USU, the activity involved five KNB scholarship students from Bangladesh, Botswana, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Yemen. The BIPA training program for KNB scholarship recipients lasts one year, with the goal of preparing them to study in Indonesian at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels.
The training consists of six levels, each covering 20 sessions, with each session lasting 120 minutes. The materials taught include reading texts, listening exercises, conversational dialogues, and writing tasks to strengthen overall language skills. In addition to classroom learning, the program also includes extracurricular activities such as community service, excursion studies, and field trips.
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All of these language learning activities will provide valuable experiences and significant benefits for the KNB scholarship students in developing their Indonesian language proficiency, as well as strengthening intercultural relations.
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