DEVELOPING SECOND AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: INSIGHT FROM THE LEARNERS

Abstract

This paper presents a study of two learners' experiences in learning Indonesia and English. One of the learners is from the Philippines and the other is from Thailand. As the study was cinducted, they were ,studying in an English language teaching program at an Indonesia University. The two learners maintened quite unique learning experiences in that both of them neither had knowledge of nor cimmunictuive skills in Indonesia language prior to coming to Indonesia. Although the faced lots of difficulty at first, both of them were able to communicate in Indonesia language fluently after some period of living and studying in Indonesia.