Chinese Cultural Lesson Design Based On The Comparison Between Chinese And Indonesian Cultural Festival

This research was based on 47 Chinese learning students need and the result of interviewing several Medan area’s Chinese and Non-Chinese learners with the purpose of searching its insufficiency.By applying the comparative method,we will be able to find out the similarities and differences between Chinese and Indonesian cultural festivals and Indonesian Chinese descendants cultural festival.Chinese learning in Indonesia is lacking of Chinese cultural introduction and comparison between two countries,while from the interview we obtain the information of the Chinese learner are interested in cultural festival subject.This paper introduces the public holiday in Indonesia and the Indonesian Chinese descendant traditional festivals,and the comparison with China’s current festival,festival source,celebration way,time setting and the meaning behind,with the purpose of setting better learning foundation.Then,the Spring festival;lesson design was practically taught in class as an experiment.In the Spring Festival lesson,the level or position,the culture,prohibitions,and the food is served and introduced to the students.For strengthening the studies,one of the Indonesian most important event,Eid Mubarak is chosen to be compared with Spring Festival.Besides,some activities such as,Chinese paper cutting,dumplings making and eating are prepared for the students.Last but not least,the questionnaire was made to measure student satisfaction.After analyzing the result,we discovered that the student was highly satisfied.The student also points out that they are interested in variety method of teaching and learning.With the comparative method,the student are getting more interested and it is better for the learning process.The innovation of the thesis is to understand the similarities and differences of the festivals by using comparative method between China and Indonesia’s public festival,and Chinese Descendants festival in Indonesia,and then apply it to the study.Variety teaching method is of great important in order to create an effective atmosphere for learning the Chinese language.This thesis seeks to justify that the study of Chinese cultural festivals leads to better grasp and learning of the Chinese language.