17 July 2024
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Deliserdang – The Community Service Team from Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), consisting of lecturers from the Faculty of Cultural Sciences (FIB) especially the Japanese Literature Study Program, conducted a community service activity at the Deli Husada Institute of Health, Delitua, Deliserdang Regency. This community service activity is an effort to support and develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program.
The Head of the Community Service Team, Adriana Hasibuan, SS, M.Hum, accompanied by team members Alimansyar, MA, Ph.D, Rani Arfiyanti, SS, M.Phil, and Ade Rahmawaty Srg, S.Psi, M.Psi, explained that SDGs are an international agreement for sustainable development based on human rights and equality.
"Quality education has become a major focus, as stated by the Ministry of National Development Planning/BAPPENAS, with 10 main targets, one of which is to significantly increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills for decent work and entrepreneurship. In Japanese language learning, university curricula still focus on mastering Japanese grammar, without any additional activities to practice their Japanese skills in daily communication," she explained.
Adriana Hasibuan, M.Hum, added that in support of the government's program targeting quality education, Universitas Sumatera Utara is also committed to developing the SDGs program through community service activities. Furthermore, in order to obtain decent jobs that are in line with one of the targets of quality education, the Deli Husada Institute of Health, Deli Tua, participates in the EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement), a collaborative program between the Indonesian and Japanese governments for providing Indonesian nurses for internships in Japanese nursing homes.
"To prepare qualified nurses, the Deli Husada Institute of Health, Deli Tua, opens additional Japanese language classes under the institution known as LPK (Work Training Institute). LPK opens opportunities for nurses interested in interning in Japan to learn and practice Japanese language communication," she said.
Based on this, the community service team offered interactive Japanese language training outside of regular Japanese lessons, specifically for nurse trainees at the Deli Husada Institute of Health, Deli Tua, who are going to intern in Japan.
“The Japanese language communication training activities related to elderly care for nurse trainees from the Deli Husada Deli Tua Health Institute who will intern in Japan are effective and selective in improving speaking skills as one of the key language competencies.
“The methods used in this training are lectures employing the picture and picture model to explain different language registers and word choices used when communicating in Japanese, as well as face-to-face speaking exercises to motivate nurse trainees to speak in Japanese using the picture and picture model,” she said.
A question-and-answer session was also used to assess the Japanese speaking abilities of the nurse trainees. Practice and simulation methods were employed to enable training participants to apply the material they had learned.
The stages of the training consisted of preparation, implementation, and evaluation. During the implementation stage, the focus was on explaining Japanese sentence patterns, vocabulary choices, language registers, and Japanese culture used in communication, all presented through the picture and picture model, and applying this model through practice and simulation techniques. The final result of this training was an evaluation of the trainees’ Japanese speaking abilities.
It is hoped that this training activity will increase the motivation of nurse trainees from the Deli Husada Deli Tua Institute of Health who will intern in Japan to communicate in Japanese. This improvement is evidenced by pre-test and post-test scores. The training was conducted over 60 hours, with each session lasting 2 hours.
The community service activity was carried out systematically, starting from training preparation, preparation of learning materials, participant recruitment, implementing the training, monitoring and evaluation, and report writing. There were 50 participants, consisting of nurse trainees preparing to depart for Japan in 2024. After attending the training, the reading skills in Japanese writing and speaking skills of the trainee nurses from the Deli Husada Deli Tua Health Institute showed improvement.
Source: Analisadaily.com
