ABSTRACT
The Chinese in Indonesia have become the subject of numerous research studies. Most of these studies investigate the political, economic and social aspects of the Chinese population. The lives of the Chinese Indonesians have been marked by their struggle to survive and to adjust to the local life while having to make political decisions about whether to maintain their own Chinese tradition in the new land, or to abandon it and embrace the new cultures or blend their Chinese culture with the local cultures. The sociocultural approach to literacy that has built up the conceptual framework of research is that literacy is a social practice which has many specific manifestations. The participants used the simplified version of Chinese. The materials they learned did not correspond with the daily life topics they talked about. The learners' emotional needs relate to their sense of affiliation, frustration, and boredom.
