Importance
Importance
Importance
INTRODUCTION
Learning activity is an activity that must be followed by all students and teachers, with
the aim of achieve the success of educational goals. The success of learning depends on an
effective learning process in the classroom. Effectiveness of learning behavior is influenced by
four things, namely
the existence of motivation;
attention and knowing the goals;
efforts;
evaluation of the use of results.
Based on Bornstein (1987), Budiawan (2008), motivation is a form of encourage from the
inside (inner drive), and also encouragement that can move a person to do certain activities.
Therefore, motivation to learn English is influenced by many things, one of which is a learning
process that is not conducive and does not vary. So that the learning process becomes bored and
decreases the motivation of students to improve their English skills.
Every English teacher is always encouraged to prepare every learning activity carefully
since a well-prepared activity helps the students to achieve the learning objectives. One of the
proposed teaching activity to implement is ice breakers. Ice-breaking activities are generally
used at the beginning of the class. According to Astuti et al., (2020), an ice breaker is an effort to
break or melt the rigid atmosphere that is like ice to become more relaxing and comfortable.
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Panggua (2016) points out that ice breaker can be interpreted as breaking the ice, and the ice here
might refer to many situations. Simply put, an ice breaker is a kind of activity done by the
teachers to create comfortable teaching and learning process, and it can be carried out through
many activities.
METHOD AND METHODOLOGY
We consider that ice breaking activities are the main way of improving motivation and
making the learning process effective.
The term “ice breaker” comes from two foreign words, namely ice which means ice has
a rigid, cold, and hard nature, while the breaker means solving. Meaning literally an ice-breaker
is an "ice breaker". So, an ice breaker can be interpreted as attempts to break or melt the
atmosphere that is rigid as ice to become more comfortable flowing and relaxing.
An ice breaker commonly only lasts a few minutes at the beginning of the class, but it
might bring plenty of advantages to the students. Astuti et al., (2020) state that ice breaker
derives from two foreign vocabularies called ice (a rigid, cold, and hard nature), and the breaker
(overcoming). Indeed, an ice breaker is an effort to break or melt the rigid atmosphere that is like
ice to become more relaxing and comfortable. Ice-breaking can be carried out in assorted
activities like a short story, a game, and guessing, and an ice-breaking activity is normally
managed in 5 until 15 minutes. Panggua, (2016) points out that ice breaker can be interpreted as
breaking the ice, and the ice here might refer to many situations. Hutasoit & Tambunan (2018)
mention that an ice-breaking activity might help the teachers to create the successful exchange of
thoughts by creating more comfortable situation for the students, so they are going to participate
more in conversation. An ice breaker, in short, is a learning activity used to create comfortable
teaching and learning process. In this study, ice-breaking is a type of activity used at the
beginning of the class, and it is used to make the students ready to join the class and lead to the
topic that is going to be learned.
RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Ice breaking is an activity that can be used to solve the tension and saturation of students
in learning, so that the class becomes fun and more conducive before entering into core
activities. The conducive situation will be more effective to help students achieve learning goals
compared to a tense situation. Ice breaking can do in various activity, such as game, short story,
and guessing. This activity is usually done in time 5 until 15 minutes.
There are several benefits of doing ice breaking activities, including the ones eliminate
boredom, stress, anxiety, and fatigue because they can get out while from the routine of the
lesson by doing free and cheerful activities, also other benefits such as:
Train creative thinking and broad students,
Develop and optimize the brain and creativity of students,
Train students to interact in groups and work together in a team,
Train systematic and creative thinking to solve problems,
Increase self-confidence,
Practice determining strategies carefully,
Train creativity with limited material,
Practice concentration,
Dare to act and not be afraid of being wrong,
Gluing tenuous interpersonal relationships,
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recommends some ice breakers that are feasible to implement. They are jumbled sentences,
correcting mistakes, English songs, storytelling activities, and English humor.
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