A LEARNING MODEL OF BAHASA INDONESIAAS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BASED ON LOCAL INTERCULTURAL POLITENESS

The study was aimed for developing a learning model of Bahasa Indonesia based on local intercultural politeness to improve the foreigners‟ communicative competencies.This isResearch and Development, started with a preliminary study of intercultural learning concepts and Buginese politeness strategies; the distribution of the needs analysis instruments to the 25 foreigners learning Bahasa Indonesia in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia; model development, focus group discussions; the model finalization and product experiment.The interviews and questionnairesdata were analyzed bydescriptive quantitative and qualitative. The result,a local politeness intercultural learning model consisting of four phases: noticing, comparing, reflecting, and interacting. 1)The foreign learners noticed the use of local politeness markers in BahasaIndonesia; 2) They compared the similarities and differences between theuse of the markers of local politeness and those they found in their native languages; 3) They reflected themselves;4)They practiced Bahasa Indonesia through direct interactions. The conclusion showed that the t-score = 3.26 > t-table = 2.45 signifying that the model was effective in overcoming the foreign learners‟ problems in oral interactions andimproving their Bahasa Indonesia communicative competencies.