THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ LEARNING MOTIVATION AT SMP DWIJENDRA DENPASAR

Abstract

The realization shows that the students’ learning motivation can be considered as low which has been caused by students’ boredom, the presentation of material is less interesting, and they lead to students’ learning achievement. One of teacher efforts to improve students’ motivation is the implementation of effective non-verbal communication in learning process. This research aims at analyzing the effectiveness and correlation between non-verbal communication and students’ learning motivation at SMP Dwijendra Denpasar. This research implemented show-ball sampling non discriminative exponential; the data collection has been started from minor to major data. The first subject gave relevant reference until the data were met in total of 71 sample. Technique of data collection implemented was questionnaire. The result of descriptive analysis of the questionnaire of the implementation of non-verbal communication can be categorized as effective and fairly motivated. The effectiveness or correlation of non-verbal communication towards learning motivation was analyzed product moment (r) test with confident interval amounted of 95% or significance level amounted of 0,05 using SPSS 25. r _count  = 0.840 and sig. value = 0,00 < alpha =0,05. It can be concluded that non-verbal communication was effective and correlated to improve students’ learning motivation at SMP Dwijendra Denpasar. This research contributes the statement on teacher’s ability in implementing non-verbal communication effectively can improve students’ learning motivation.