Awareness can be explained as an understanding about something taking place in the

surrounding. Mc Kay (2008) explained that awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to

feel or to be conscious of objet or pattern. The statement above assumes that awareness

referring to something faced by the people in their life such as the process of socialization,

learning, or even self-understanding.

Regarding to type of awareness, Zeman (2001) divided it into four categories namely

wakefulness, experiment, mental condition, and self-awareness. First, wakefulness is a

condition which individuals are interacted in certain environment. Second, experiment means

preparedness for something that happens around. Third, mental condition refers to conviction,

expectation, and also intention. Last, self awareness indicates self-recognition, self-

knowledge, ownership of ideas, and individual feeling itself.

In addition Solso (2007) described that self-awareness is an understanding of self-

characteristics, personality, emotional and also advantages and deficiencies in a case of life.

Students’ awareness refers to students’ consciousness about what they feel in learning and

their attention to the ways they learn and understand the subjects. This self awareness covers

aspects which influence their decision to do an act such the use of tools or media for reaching

their goal. It means the consequence of its students’ awareness can improve consistency of

students’ behaviour and attitude which determining their act continually.

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 Pickens (2005) explained that awareness is a complicated combination of personality,

belief, values, behaviours and motivations. This statement refers to an individual response

towards certain thing and situation that becoming a mindset based on individual experience

and temperament can make an individual act in a particular way. Moreover, Pickens (2005)

emphasized three components of an awareness namely affect (a feeling), cognition (a thought

or belief), and behaviour (an action). Thus, awareness is a response towards something that

shown based on individual experience, behaviour, and motivations and it comes with a

degree of favour and disfavour.