Similarity and Dissimilarity of Culture between Indonesia-Thailand as a Context of Foreign Language Teaching Bambang Yulianto, Prima Vidya Asteria, Imam Suyitno, Siriporn Maneechukhate, Irhamna Nirbhaya Carreca
Universitas Negeri Surabaya
Universitas Negeri Malang
Maejo University
Abstract
The study aims to provide cultural restrictions as a pedagogical context of BIPA learning based on plurilingual and pluricultural competencies for BIPA Thailand students. This study uses bibliometric analysis methodology to map research publications on plurilingual and pluricultural characteristics of Thai BIPA students on Google Scholar search engines. The results of the mapping in the form of similarities and differences between Indonesian culture and Thai culture are used as the context of Indonesian learning for Thai students. The result of research show that the similarity between Indonesian culture and Thai culture lies in the categories of habits, food, communication characteristics, social media, health, economy, tourism, and politics. While the difference between Indonesian culture and Thai culture lies in the categories of habits, food, communication characteristics, social media, health, economics, tourism, politics, local language, and transportation.
