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An investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / Che Nooryohana Zulkifli and Mohamad Putera Idris

This study presents the importance of having ice-breaking activities in classrooms and how it can help learners to feel welcome and comfortable as well as it can provide them with a platform to initiate episodes of conversation with others who are first considered strangers to them. Argued by Dix...

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Main Authors: Zulkifli, Che Nooryohana, Idris, Mohamad Putera
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah 2021
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Educational psychology
Graduate students
Lectures and lecturing
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spelling my.uitm.ir.465102021-06-07T08:04:29Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46510/ An investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / Che Nooryohana Zulkifli and Mohamad Putera Idris Zulkifli, Che Nooryohana Idris, Mohamad Putera Educational psychology Graduate students Lectures and lecturing This study presents the importance of having ice-breaking activities in classrooms and how it can help learners to feel welcome and comfortable as well as it can provide them with a platform to initiate episodes of conversation with others who are first considered strangers to them. Argued by Dixon, Crooks and Henry (2006), icebreakers normally serve as early activities that participants in a particular group take part before any other social relationships could be developed as it could influence one’s social presence in a particular setting. Thus, considering this notion, this paper examined the usefulness and effectiveness of ice-breaking activities to learners as part of their learning experience. There are 46 learners cum respondents had undergone three ice-breaking activities before they were asked to answer open-ended questions which are related to the significance of ice breaking and how the activities could help them to socialise and build appropriate network whenever necessary. The main goals of this study are to investigate the learners’ point of view about icebreakers to unearth the types of information they usually provide when introducing themselves and to what extent icebreaking activities can help them in their daily interaction in classrooms. The results, however, show that not all respondents felt comfortable and ready to break the ice with those whom they barely knew. Nevertheless, the data proves that to feel less anxious is important whenever the learners are required to engage in any of the classroom activities and this can be done through icebreakers. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah 2021-01 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46510/1/46510.pdf ID46510 Zulkifli, Che Nooryohana and Idris, Mohamad Putera (2021) An investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / Che Nooryohana Zulkifli and Mohamad Putera Idris. Journal Voice of Academia, 17 (1). pp. 10-19. ISSN 26827840
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topic Educational psychology
Graduate students
Lectures and lecturing
spellingShingle Educational psychology
Graduate students
Lectures and lecturing
Zulkifli, Che Nooryohana
Idris, Mohamad Putera
An investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / Che Nooryohana Zulkifli and Mohamad Putera Idris
description This study presents the importance of having ice-breaking activities in classrooms and how it can help learners to feel welcome and comfortable as well as it can provide them with a platform to initiate episodes of conversation with others who are first considered strangers to them. Argued by Dixon, Crooks and Henry (2006), icebreakers normally serve as early activities that participants in a particular group take part before any other social relationships could be developed as it could influence one’s social presence in a particular setting. Thus, considering this notion, this paper examined the usefulness and effectiveness of ice-breaking activities to learners as part of their learning experience. There are 46 learners cum respondents had undergone three ice-breaking activities before they were asked to answer open-ended questions which are related to the significance of ice breaking and how the activities could help them to socialise and build appropriate network whenever necessary. The main goals of this study are to investigate the learners’ point of view about icebreakers to unearth the types of information they usually provide when introducing themselves and to what extent icebreaking activities can help them in their daily interaction in classrooms. The results, however, show that not all respondents felt comfortable and ready to break the ice with those whom they barely knew. Nevertheless, the data proves that to feel less anxious is important whenever the learners are required to engage in any of the classroom activities and this can be done through icebreakers.
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title An investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / Che Nooryohana Zulkifli and Mohamad Putera Idris
title_short An investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / Che Nooryohana Zulkifli and Mohamad Putera Idris
title_full An investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / Che Nooryohana Zulkifli and Mohamad Putera Idris
title_fullStr An investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / Che Nooryohana Zulkifli and Mohamad Putera Idris
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title_sort investigation on university students’ perceptions about icebreakers in classrooms / che nooryohana zulkifli and mohamad putera idris
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah
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