ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Students and lecturer have their own perceptions of what works best in the classroom process; thus, listening to students’ perceptions can be a salient way in exploring the best environment in teaching and learning process. This paper aimed to find out the students’ perception on the role of target-language culture in cross-cultural understanding class viewed from students’ judgment and prediction. This study utilized qualitative research in the form of the case study as the research method. The subjects of the research were students of fourth semesters in Mataram University who take CCU course. The data were collected through observation, interview and document analysis then analyzed using interactive model (data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion or verification). The results show that: 1). Students’ judge the role of target-language culture as interesting, 2). Students predict that learning target-language culture can facilitate them to go abroad someday.
