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How to Cultivate Focus and Emotion to Our Students?

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The Strategies  of Cultivating Focus and Emotion to the Students The Students entering into the classroom have diverse background, condition or situation, and potency. Majority of them have difficulties in focus and emotion, and it is not easy to tell them to cncentrate or focus in learning. They enter into the classroom with empty brain, and they do not have any purposes to go to school. Therefore, the alternative ways or strategies are very urgent. There are ten strategies that can be used to cultivate focus and emotion to our students in learning. Before understanding the strategies, we should know the definition of focus and emotion in advance. A. The definition of Focus and Emotion 1. The Definition of Focus In the educational context, focus denotes the capacity to direct one's attention and concentration towards a specific objective, subject, or task. This entails the ability to eliminate distractions, sustain attention over time, and actively participate in the learning proc...
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Why do We have to Learn the Culture or the Habits When We Learn a Language?

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A Culture and Language 

1. The Definition of Culture

Understanding Culture – in a life of  human beings cannot be separated from culture and customs.
According to several experts, the word "culture" comes from (Sanskrit) that is "buddayah" which is the plural form of the word "budhi" meaning prudence or common sense. The culture is defined as "things that are concerned with discretion or common sense". The sense of culture in general are the result of copyright, taste and human intention in meeting the needs of his complex which includes knowledge, belief, art, moral, customary law and any skills, and habits.

Koentjaraningrat stated that the definition of culture is the totality of human behaviour and the results obtained by studying, and all arrayed in the life of the community. Similar with Koentjaraningrat, defined by Selo Soemardjan and Soelaeman Soenardi, the floral Sprig in his sociology (Jakarta: Yayasan Badan Publisher Faculty of Economics University of Indonesia, 1964, formulate a culture as all the results of the work, copyright, and a sense of community.

Work of community culture and technology generate a material or physical culture (material culture) required by human beings to control natural surroundings so that the power and the results can be devoted to the purposes of the society. The sense of culture in English called culture. It is a relatively new term for a term of his own in English culture emerging in the mid-19th century.

Thus, we can say that the definition of the culture is the things are created or produced by the human beings that will become the habits in the daily life, like the habits of behavior, speaking, eating, or the other activities. Besides, we can also defind that the culture  is the things as the results of the thought  believed and bring positive effects in the life. 

2. The Link between Culture and Language

Language and culture seems as if cannot be separated in human life, especially in the world of education of language itself. The language is often thought of as a product of culture. On the other hand, the formation of culture cannot be released from the role of the dominant language. Fishman (quoted from Risager, 2006) formulated the three tight linkages between language and culture by stating that language is "section", "index" and "symbolic" culture. As a "section" of culture, language plays an important role as a bridge in cultural understanding, especially for those who want to learn a lot about the culture. As an "index" of culture, languages reveal a way of thinking or organizing experience in culture certain.

Thus, in learning a language well and successfully, the language learners should know and learn the language and habits of the country if not they will encounter the difficultties in learning the language. Since, every counry not only has  different language but also culture and habits. Therefore, knowing, perceiving and learning the culture and habits for language learners are a must, Do you agree with me?

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