Research on Indonesian Breakthrough Level Students’ Oral Chinese Learning Strategies

The purpose of this study is to analyze the learning strategies used by Indonesian breakthrough level students (CEFR A1) in attempt to master oral Chinese. The collected data are the answers made by students of Mandarin Language Department UNJ who attend Conversation I course (CEFR A1/breakthrough) on questionnaire given. The questionnaire is based on Oxford’s (2000) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) as well as is combined with Li Jiang (2006)’s SILL Oral Chinese. The research results can be used to develop the teaching techniques which stimulate students to use the most useful strategies to master oral Chinese.