The Journey of Learning

Citation :  Öz ϋ or ҫ un, Fatma. (2013). The Importance of Body Language in Intercultural Communications. EUL Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. IV Issuee II, pp 70-81. People can be trapped in serious problem when misinterpreting one's body movements and gestures. Body movements contribute to non-verbal communication. The performer intends to express something through movements. Every region and country has different culture, since different places have different culture. It means that some body movements or gestures can be considered as the action of respect in certain place, but it also can be interpreted as offensive or disrespectful action for the other people. Body language is a means of communication which includes body movements of the head, neck, hands, arm, feet, or other parts of the body to reflect expressions. Those things are used to show one’s emotion and to support the verbal communication. This article said that the first impression of one’s talk is 60% eye con...

Citation : Masikem. (2016). The Implementation of Cooperative Learning Model Talking Chips and Quick on the Draw to Enhance Motivation and Social Studies Learning Outcome. IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education. Vol. 6 Issue 3, pp 33-39. Encouraging the students' motivation and learning outcomes in social studies is one of noteworthy issue in teaching and learning process. Students who have low motivation tend to not enjoy the class activity. It can be seen from their face expression and their behavior in the class. They are looked like sleepy, and they choose to keep silent during the activity. Even, there are no any opinions or feedback to the lesson. Sometimes, the students also fall asleep because of the low interest to the class activity. On the other hand, the teacher and some students who have high ability often dominate the class, so that it pushes back the low motivation students to have less interest. However, when the break time is coming, the students wi...