The Phenomenon of Using Potential Form in Indonesian as Foreign Language Learners Utterance

摘要

The amusing aspect of learning Indonesian as a foreign language is by adopting potential forms that adult learners realize it or not. This potential form is generally influenced by the analogy that foreign language learners formulated within the Indonesian language. The most frequently found potential form of speech in Indonesian as a foreign language is that students meet morphological rules in Indonesian. Communicating with native speakers, students often experience barriers in between. Word selection used by foreign speakers is often considered unfamiliar in the context of the daily based conversation. Based on the problem, this study aims to discover the motives of such tendency occurred to use the potential forms, then, to find out the potential forms in Indonesian language study, and how would they thrive the potential forms to other foreign learners. By using qualitative descriptive research methods, the findings showed that student understanding is not particularly relevant, specifically in terms of words use followed by other word-formation patterns in which morphological processes are similar to certain affective attachments. The development of Indonesian grammar material needs to reach potential forms of discussion. Also, the development of the material needs to be conveyed by Indonesian as foreign language teachers.