Indigenous Character Found on European Languages in Foreign Language Course

Language is a mean of communication that plays important role in human life and its
function is to transfer information and make social relationship as recently occurs in
globalization era. As the limitation of capacity on formal education institution, it is created
non-formal education to learn foreign language in foreign language course to help the
program of government in making the nation smart holistically, both spiritual and nonspiritual.
Therefore, indigenous character is needed to conduct the research in foreign
language course as language relates to its culture.
The aims of this research are to dig out indigenous character found on Europe language,
its implementation and also the problems in implementing in foreign language course.
The research method used is descriptive qualitative research. The subjects are all the
teachers in KBA UMM foreign language course using interview and observation to get
data while the triangulation used are subject and method.
The result shows that indigenous character found are represented in its culture. The
implementation of those elements is seen on the activity of teaching foreign language,
that are similar and different among Europe language the character education
problems faced in implementing are two aspects, linguistic and non-linguistic. The
linguistic problems consist of the leaners’ ability to learn foreign language whereas
nonlinguistic problem covers the leaners’ attitude and behavior.