Empathic and peacebuilding gestures: an analysis of greeting gestures across cultures

Communication process allows people to receive and send messages through verbal and nonverbal resources which play an important role in healthy interpersonal acts. While verbal communication has been the subject of many studies, the present study aims to focus mainly on the nonverbal aspect that is greeting gestures. In this article we shall analyze which greeting gesture, that is widely used across different cultures may evoke a feeling of empathy and thus build peaceful interactions so needed in human communication nowadays.

Development of Physics Communication Skill Instruments Based on Local Wisdom for Senior High School Students

This research aims to develop physics communication skill instruments based on local wisdom for Senior High School Students. The development step was adopted special research for non-test developed by Mardapi (2012). There are ten steps for developing an instrument, such as 1) arrange the specification of the instrument, 2) write the instrument, 3) determine the scale, 4) determine scoring system, 5) recheck the instrument, 6) do the pre-test 7) analyze the instrument, 8) make the final instrument, 9) do the measurement, and 10) analyze the result of the measurement. The communication skills are measured by verbal aspects use the observation sheet through the presentation. Meanwhile, the nonverbal aspect uses the portfolio. This instrument is validated by three experts in evaluation, physics, education, and three teachers of a senior high student. Communication skills consist of five indicators. This study is participated by 33 students of SMA IT Ihsanul Fikri. The content validity was analyzed with the V Aiken formula show that the overall coefficient of each item was valid with the validity coefficient ≥ 0.78. The instrument also reliable with coefficient G Relative ≥ 0.7.

Emoticons in informal text communication: a new window on bilingual alignment

The study of emoticon use in text communication is in its early stages (Aragon, Feldman, Chen & Kroll, 2014), with even less known about how emoticons function in multilingual environments. We describe a preliminary longitudinal analysis of text communication in an online bilingual scientific work environment and demonstrate how patterns of emoticon use constitute a novel yet systematic nonverbal aspect of communication. Specifically, coordination over bilingual speakers entails reductions in emoticon diversity over time that are greater for those who communicate in their L2 than in their L1. An analogous but weaker pattern is evident for lexical diversity in L2 but not L1. We hypothesize that reductions in emoticon diversity in the L2 are likely to reflect social contributions to alignment rather than purely proficiency.