The Application of Teachers’ Body Language in English Teach(10)

(name of author) 10 Accurate gesture will increase the persuasion and infection on paraphrase of words and tone of voice. The action of gesture is much lower than posture, but can properly express different meanings. For example, when the teachers want to speak the word “stop”, he or she can use the gesture of basketball using in basketball game. And if the teachers want to let the students sit down, he or she just need to press down him or her hand. Correct gesture would attract the students‟attention and make the students in active attitude and make the students think English learning is fun and easy.

ii. The use of postures

Posture refers to body languages. It is also a signal system of express body language. In English teaching classroom, because of the limit of language environment, real communication has large boundedness. As an English teacher, he or she should show the words, sentences grammar and other knowledge though body language, especially posture. It should make the students to imitate, learning, applicant and expand the thinking space in English teaching to deepen the understanding of knowledge and memory, achieve the best teaching effect. In classroom, the teacher should create the needs of the real environment as much as possible, though vivid presentation of teaching content, teacher language expression of the characters lifelike imitation, with proper posture language, guide students listening, imitation, performance, etc., make students quickly ruled out the difficulty in the situation, grasp the key. Correct posture can raise the student good listening in imperceptible edification and English pronunciation and intonation and enhance the consciousness of the students to communicate in English. Make the students in a harmonious atmosphere, fully the development of the whole teaching process to achieve the best effect of teaching and learning.

iii. The use of proper clothing

The clothing is another important aspect of body language. Through clothing, people can show themselves, also learn about others. Although clothing cannot talk, people express their feelings through different kinds of clothing in a particular circumstance. Doctor Peter·Rove in New York has said that a person‟s clothing is not only to show his emotional, and can display his wisdom, and from his dress habits can reveal more of his philosophy of life and outlook on life. So the clothing is a person‟s “appearance”, on behalf of a person‟s personality, which reflected his temperament, culture and life attitude. A teacher, when he walked into the classroom, before opening his dress instrument has been talking to the students. Teacher is like arduous garden, shouldering the responsibility of teaching. The seriousness of teaching work determines their dressing is no longer the individual behavior; it contains rich educational factors, and shows a sense of