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1、TheThe UseUse ofof BodyBody LanguageLanguage inin EnglishEnglish TeachingTeaching Abstract:Abstract: With the continual reform of language teaching and learning methods, teachers are required to organize the classes in English and create English-learning environments. However, with the limitation of
2、 students vocabulary, teachers have to simplify their teaching language with the help of Body Language . This paper points out some mistakes that English teachers have made in the classroom ; explains the importance of Body Language in English teaching, from the four parts of Eyesight, Countenance,
3、Gesture and Manner ; illustrates how teachers should properly use Body Language by examples and shows various kinds of Body Languge used in English teaching . Teaching English with the help of Body Languge can improve the students interest of learning English and optimize the English course design.
4、KeyKey words:words: Body Language, English teaching, Eyesight, Countenance, Gesture, Manner 1.1. Introduction:Introduction: According to the thoroughgoing policy of opening to the outside world in our country , also with the new situation of joining in WTO and hosting the Olympic games 2008 , Englis
5、h has become a more common feature in todays society . The schools at all levels also enhance the English teaching, even the Kindergarden . Although the foreign language teaching involves the outline, teaching materials and teaching methods etc., it can be reflected and achieved only through the pro
6、cess of real and practical classroom (Allwright and Beiley,1991). For language , it is so important to improve the teaching quality , teachers had to pay more attention to the research of language teaching . In English teaching classroom, teachers should not only use the oral language and written la
7、nguage to deliver the information, but also make use of the silent Body Language .2.2. DefinitionDefinition ofof BodyBody LanguageLanguage what is Body Language? It should be spoken of the Nonverbal social intercourse and the Nonverbal behavior. In human social intercourse process, specially the ora
8、l communication , people have some body movement while talking , such as body posture, countenance , gesture and so on. They are also delivering the information, making a set of system which is equal to the language signal one, the Nonverbal social intercourse (Yu Aihong,2002). People call the behav
9、ior for using the nonverbal method to communicate, Nonverbal Behavior. Body Language is expressing how one feels by the way one sits, stands, moves, etc rather than by words (Oxford Advanced Learners English-Chinese Dictionary , 2001).3.3. TeachersTeachers somesome mistakesmistakes inin EnglishEngli
10、sh teachingteaching As everyone knows, the classroom teaching is one of the most important ways that the students learn English. As far as the English teaching in many schools is concerned, teachers have to arouse the students interest so that they may learn better. There are many ways to arouse the
11、 students interest and help them to learn better, and body language used in English teaching is one of them. However, English teachers seldom realize that they should use proper body language during their teaching process . They just consider the situation all the students are attending to the lectu
12、re when a teacher has his class to be a good one. Actually, the fact is not so simple as they think .In English teaching process, there is such a phenomenon yet : Although with the same teaching materials, the students , the teachers knowledge and experience, the teaching effect is completely differ
13、ent . Some teachers classes are very interesting, the classroom atmosphere is so brisk that everyone is active to answer the questions and listens to the teacher carefully ; while some teachers classes are so boring that almost all the students are“In one place physically, but another place in mind
14、and heart.”Why there is such a phenomenon? The main reason is whether the teacher could have his lesson vivid and attract the students attention ; whether the teacher can stir up the students thirst for knowledge . The educationist of former Soviet Union Sue ( Jin yule, 2000 ) once said :“ If the te
15、acher does not try to surge up the students motion, then the knowledge can only cause a kind of apathetic attitude, and a motionless affection can only cause the fatigue.“ Therefore , if the teacher wants to have the lessons lasting vivid , he can not use that kind of model for just speaking inflexi
16、blely on the platform , but should make use of the body language fittingly , accurately and proficiently.4.4. TheThe necessitynecessity andand importanceimportance ofof usingusing bodybody languagelanguage inin EnglishEnglish teachingteachingIn order to evaluate the true role of English in the school system, it is important for the teachers who are not native speakers to evaluate their knowledge of and ability to use English (Fraid Dubin and Elite O
