An investigation of students’ attitudes on teachers' nonverbal interaction in Iranian EFL classrooms

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The aim of present research was to investigate the importance of nonverbal communication in EFL students’ language learning. Communication is a means of sharing ideas, feelings, and attitudes. It is separated into two types: verbal and nonverbal. Nonverbal aspect plays an extremely important role in human social relation but its still hard to investigate.ignorance of nonverbal communication will cause problem in education such as inefficiency of classroom teaching. In this research, the researcher collect data from questionnaire. The questionnaires solicited the information on body language, facial expression and eye contact. The Likert format had 5 points adapted from strongly agree to strongly disagree.

The result  indicated, facial expressions are considered one of the most important techniques in class, that anger on teacher's face motivates students to take interest in the studies. Teachers can make the learning environment active through their eye contact whereby students feel alert in the classrooms and take active participation in the learning process, which consequently enhances the level of their retention and understanding. Body movements also provide a strong foundation to the teachers to teach effectively and their proper use supplied additional information to the students especially in the teaching of stories.

Source : An investigation of students’ attitudes on teachers' nonverbal interaction in Iranian

EFL classrooms

by Fatemeh Behjat, Samaneh Bayat, Ali Asghar Kargar

International Journal of Language and Linguistics 2014; 2(6-1): 13-18

ISSN: 2330-0205 (Print); ISSN: 2330-0221 (Online)