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Hello, my bloggie friends! It's been a long time since i posted something to this blog. Today, i'm back with another topic. I'm going to share what i've got from a journal article i was reading.  The title is " The Impact of Silent and Freeze-Frame Viewing Techniques of Video Materials on the Intermediate EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension ". It was published in 2015 and was written by Sara Shahani and Abdorreza Tahriri. DOI: 10.1177/2158244015585999.  Yeah it's a long title, isn't it? However, i'm gonna tell you the reason why do i choose this artice to be read by me. First thing first, i love listening, especially when the teacher using movies as his/her learning tool. And then, the article's title has arisen my curiosity about the viewing technique that they researched. This journal article is structured by title, abstract, introduction, literature review, research question, method, findings, discussion, conclusion and implic...

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today i'd like to make the last chapter review from "The Power of Habits" written by Charles Duhigg . If you want to read my previous chapter review, you can go to here: review part 1 (chapter 1, 2, 3) , review part 2 (chapter 4, 5, 6) , review part 3 (chapter 7 & 8) . The last chapter or the ninth chapter from this book is part of the third part in this book. Here's my chapter review. Enjoy your reading! Chapter 9: THE NEUROLOGY OF FREE WILL (Are We Responsible for Our Habits?) Charles provides the cases of a murder and a debt gambling.  Brian Thomas killed his wife during his sleepwalking (sleepwalking was Thomas's habits). When doing so, the part of his brain that usually consciously processes behavior is asleep, but the parts controlling routine habits are still awake. It means that Thomas unconsciously killed his wife and has no control over his behavior. Thus, Thomas was acquitted by the jury. The...

Hello, everyone! Welcome to my blog. Today, i'm back with another story. I want to talk about my experience while i read others book review from five blogs i've visited. Without any further do, let's do it! Most of blogs i've visited yesterday were giving such a clear review and most of them were choosing such a great book. There were book about self-love, life, racism, adventure, and success keys. And yeah there were both of non-fiction and fiction books. But, there are some books that made me curious to read those books. Most of them are fiction books. Hehehe. One of them is a book written by Mitch Albom entitled "Tuesday with Morrie". It's about a student and his lecturer. There's also "To Kill A Mockingbird" which is written by Harper Lee. I heard about this book quite a lot, but i didn't know what kind of book was until i read its synopsis yesterday. So, that's all my experience when i visited my friends' blog. I...

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today, i would like to make chapter review from the book i was reading (read: The Power of Habits). These are the previous review  Part 1 (chapter 1, 2, 3)  and  Part 2 (Chapter 4, 5, 6) . The chapter i'd like to review are the chapter 7 (which is part of the part 2) and the part 3 which is divided into two chapters. Be ready for yourself because this is gonna be a long review ~ Chapter 7: HOW TARGET KNOWS WHAT YOU WANT BEFORE YOU DO [When Companies Predict (and Manipulate) Habits] The author tells about the habits of people's buying and people's listening to something. When we bought commercial products like groceries and music, these are our habits and those habits are predictable.  Have you ever wondered why supermarket puts healthy and fresh food near the entrance store? It's the trick. If we start our shopping sprees by loading up on healthy stuff, we're much more likely to buy unhealthy foods when we encou...

Hello guys! Today i'm back with another story. I'd still like to talk about the chapter review from the book i'm reading at this time. If i talked about the part 1 in the previous post ( Click here ), right now i want to make a chapter review from the part 2. Be ready for yourself because this blog is gonna be long. The part two in The Power of Habits is talking about The Habits of Successful Organization. So, we're gonna talking about how a success company or an organization build their habits. Chapter 4: Keystone Habits, or The Ballad of Paul O’Neill (Which Habits Matter Most) The author provides a story about a CEO from The Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), Paul O'Neill, who was succeed in making the company stood up again. O'Neill was able to overcome Alcoa's problems. The keystone that O'Neill made was considered the worker safety, he wanted to make Alcoa become the safest company. He changed Alcoa's habit loops by changing it fr...

Hello guys! It's been a long time since i didn't write in this blog. Today, i'd like to make a book review from non-fiction book tittled The Power of Habit: Why do we do what we do in life and business which written by Charles Duhigg.  Author: Charles Duhigg Country: United States Language: English Publisher: Random House Trade Publication date: 2012 Pages: 371 ISBN: 9781400069286 Book summary: In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Timesbusiness reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.  This book divided into 3 parts. Each parts have some chapters and what i will review today is the part one. The part one of this book is talking abou...

Hello, folks! Welcome to my blog! Today i want to talk about education system in my country and education system in another country. This another country is part of ASEAN and specifically it's our neighbour. It's not Singapore or Timor Leste, and it's not also Brunei Darussalam. Almost there! Yep, Malaysia! On 2017, Malaysia got score 0.671 for their education index from UNDP and was ranked on 62 as their quality of education in this world, higher than Indonesia. Though Malaysia neighbours Indonesia, its education system is actually different. Based on the level of education, some Indonesians start entered to school at the age of three at pre-schools. Malaysians start entered to school at the age of four at pre-schools although it's not compulsory. Malaysia's primary school starts at the age of seven and ended at the 6th year when they are twelve. It goes same as Indonesia's primary school.  In Malaysia's secondary school, they have five years to fi...