ABSTRACT The teaching of Indonesian as a foreign language is sometimes felt uninteresting and ineffective due to a number of reasons. One of the significant reasons is the strategy or approach applied by teachers is not sophisticated. As a result, students are easily bored with the material presented by teachers, and teachers are usually frustrated with students’ inability to understand the teaching materials in their classes. This paper presents an approach called Love and Smile Teaching that is believed to be accurate and efficient for teachers to solve the said problems. Through LOVE (Loyal, Open- hearted, Versed, Educated), and SMILE (Supervisor, Motivator, Initiator, Leader, Entertainer), teachers are expected to be loyal, open- hearted, and versed educators in teaching, and students are kindly hoped to enjoy the teaching- learning process as they should regard their teachers as excellent Supervisors, Motivators, Initiators, Leaders, and Entertainers. This paper also presents effective strategies for the teaching Indonesian as a foreign language. Key words: love and smile, teaching, strategy, effective and efficient. A. INTRODUCTIO N Basically, teaching is commonly understood as a profession that can produce something great when the methods and ideas are correctly and accurately presented and implemented in the classroom. The purpose of teaching generally lies in getting students to truly understand the concepts and methods being taught. Teaching is also known as a series of activities organized to support the learning process. Learning, according to some experts, is acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. Learning is a process, rather than a collection of factual and procedural knowledge. Teaching is the main activity of teachers, and learning is an obligatory activity of students. Meanwhile, teaching material is a medium of teaching- learning process. These three components— teacher, student, and material— are major components of interactional education. Several experts point out that teaching is a knowledge transfer process. Teacher is the subject, whereas, the student is the object. This idea implies that the target of learning is that the students can get information or knowledge from their learning activities Therefore, in the teaching- learning process, the teachers are mostly active and the students are usually passive. The teachers explain or describe the topic and the students are hoped to understand it. This is generally known as a Teacher Centered Learning (TCL) method. Other experts believe that teaching is an organizing activity in the learning process. The learning process has to be organized in order to be effective in transferring knowledge. The target of learning is how to make a good classroom situation so that the students can enjoy their learning activities. The students have to be active, and the teachers fill their roles as good motivators and facilitators. This is commonly called Student Centered Learning (SCL) method. In the learning- teaching process, especially in teaching Indonesian as a foreign language, both the TCL and SCL methods have been regarded very important methods in many classroom activities at higher education level in Indonesia. They always frame any discussions of language teaching- learning activities. They are sometimes seen as in conflict, and sometimes as complementary. Each of these ideas has had its defenders in the course of Indonesian language learning and teaching activities. The learning and teaching experts have emphasized first one, and then the other, as the most marked teaching methods that arose in many higher institutions in Indonesia. However, based on the learning and teaching process conducted at BIPA (Bahasa Indonesia untuk Penutur Asing) or Indonesian as a Foreign Language Program at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of UNHAS in Indonesia, the two methods have been found less effective and inefficient to improve the understanding of Indonesian language learners (students)
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