A Need Analysis of Mandarin Conversation Teaching Materials Development

Textbooks used in Mandarin Conversation course affect the achieved competencies. The materials and learning activities should support the competence of speech, the mastery of language element due to communication, cross-cultural understanding and so forth. This study aims to identify needs relevant to the absence of Mandarin conversation textbook in college, and to obtain information about the effectiveness of learning, presenting the necessary skills priorities for the design of textbook on speaking skills. This need analysis is a preliminary study for the development of Mandarin speaking skills textbooks in long-term teaching language for Indonesian speaking mature learner who study in their mother tongue environment. The results of this study can be the basis in the teaching material analysis activities, designing and developing Mandarin Conversation course textbook. The study shows, Mandarin Conversation course textbook used in Mandarin Language Education program in Indonesia are diverse. Currently, there is an incompleteness in the series of language skills books as well as incompatibility with expected speaking competence, practical communication skills.