SACE Stage 2 Indonesian (continuers) study plan
SACE Stage 2 Indonesian (continuers) · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Interacting with others in Indonesian & Knowledge and understanding of Indonesian language and culture
Draft and rehearse eight transactional dialogues covering school, work, and public services, using register-appropriate openings and closings.
Memorise and actively deploy 60 high-frequency conversational connectors and politeness formulas in spoken and written sentences.
Record yourself answering ten personal-information and opinion prompts, then self-correct pronunciation and intonation against a model.
Map five core Indonesian social conventions (greetings, address terms, indirect refusal, small talk, turn-taking) and explain each in two sentences.
Your checkpoint
A 12-minute self-recorded audio portfolio of eight dialogues plus a one-page register and politeness cheat sheet.
Interacting with others in Indonesian & Understanding and responding to Indonesian texts
Read four short authentic-style texts (announcement, personal letter, news brief, advertisement) and annotate main idea, purpose, and audience for each.
Extract target vocabulary from those texts and build a 50-item personal glossary with example sentences.
Role-play six request, complaint, and negotiation scenarios aloud, using softened refusals and clarifying questions.
Summarise each text orally in 60 seconds without notes.
Your checkpoint
A reading log of four annotated texts with a 50-item glossary and four 60-second oral summaries recorded.
Understanding and responding to Indonesian texts & Knowledge and understanding of Indonesian language and culture
Analyse how affixation (meN-, ber-, -kan, -i, ke-an) changes meaning across 30 verb and noun pairs drawn from your reading.
Compare two text types (formal report versus informal message) and list five linguistic markers that distinguish them.
Identify and explain four cultural references or values embedded in the texts you read (e.g. gotong royong, hierarchy in address).
Answer eight inference and tone questions about unseen short passages under timed conditions.
Your checkpoint
A morphology table of 30 affixed forms plus a written comparison of two text types with five markers each.
Understanding and responding to Indonesian texts & Producing Indonesian texts
Write three 150-word texts in different genres (formal letter, opinion piece, personal narrative) using accurate affixation and connectors.
Self-edit each draft against a personal checklist of five recurring errors, then produce a clean second version.
Complete two timed reading-and-response sets and log every unknown word with its inferred meaning.
Convert one informal message into a formal register and justify each change in a short annotation.
Your checkpoint
A portfolio of three polished 150-word texts with first and second drafts plus a register-conversion annotation.
Producing Indonesian texts & Knowledge and understanding of Indonesian language and culture
Plan and draft a 250-word persuasive text on a contemporary Indonesian issue, structuring claim, evidence, and counterpoint.
Apply cohesion devices (reference, substitution, conjunction) deliberately and highlight each use in your draft.
Research and verify five factual cultural or social details to support your argument, citing where each came from.
Deliver a three-minute spoken version of the argument and note where spoken and written styles diverge.
Your checkpoint
A 250-word persuasive text with highlighted cohesion devices, a five-item fact sheet, and a three-minute recording.
Producing Indonesian texts & Interacting with others in Indonesian
Write two 200-word responses to unseen prompts within 40 minutes each to build timed productive fluency.
Conduct a 10-minute simulated conversation on a prepared topic, sustaining turns and asking follow-up questions.
Revise your top ten error patterns from weeks 1-5 and rewrite five faulty sentences correctly.
Paraphrase five complex source sentences into simpler Indonesian without losing meaning.
Your checkpoint
Two timed 200-word responses plus a ten-minute conversation recording and a corrected error-pattern log.
Knowledge and understanding of Indonesian language and culture & Understanding and responding to Indonesian texts
Consolidate a one-page reference of Indonesian cultural knowledge (festivals, geography, education, family, religion) with accurate specifics.
Read three longer passages and answer main-idea, detail, inference, and evaluation questions for each.
Explain in Indonesian, aloud, five cultural practices and why they matter to speakers.
Audit your cultural reference sheet for any claim you cannot verify and correct or remove it.
Your checkpoint
A verified one-page cultural reference sheet plus three completed passage-response sets with answers justified in writing.
Interacting with others in Indonesian & Understanding and responding to Indonesian texts & Producing Indonesian texts & Knowledge and understanding of Indonesian language and culture
Sit two full timed mock papers covering reading, writing, and listening-style tasks, then mark them against criteria.
Rehearse and record a final 12-minute conversation covering personal, social, and cultural topics.
Review your entire error log and glossary, drilling only the 40 items still unstable.
Write a one-page self-assessment naming three strengths and three concrete weaknesses with next steps.
Your checkpoint
Two marked mock papers with scores, a final 12-minute conversation recording, and a one-page self-assessment.
Milestones
Week 2: You can sustain a two-minute unscripted conversation and summarise any short text orally in 60 seconds without notes.
Week 4: You produce a clean 150-word text in a named genre with no more than three self-identified errors, and your reading log shows accurate main-idea identification on unseen passages.
Week 6: You complete two 200-word timed responses within 40 minutes each and hold a ten-minute conversation without switching to English.
Week 8: Both mock papers are completed under time, all four domains are represented in your portfolio, and your self-assessment names specific, actionable next steps.