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First, body language can helpteachers to express their meaning correctly. English teaching is a key part ofthe school education. With the continual reform of language teaching andlearning methods, more and more English teachers organize the teaching processin English, so that they may realize the Communication English. “TheCommunication English means that teachers instruct the students and explainquestions in English basically, and the students are also required to useEnglish in class.” (Hu Chundiao, 1990) At the same time, the students in thejunior high schools cannot speak English very well, and they cannot understandwhy they should use different tones in different situations. Their vocabularyand expressive are limited too. In this case, the Communication English isappeared difficultly in the classes. According to the students’ present levelsand practical situations, body language is required. For example, a teacher askstwo students to come to the blackboard. Those two students can understand themeaning soon when the teacher looks at the two students and then points to theblackboard. But if the teacher only speaks the words without eye contact andgesture, maybe the students cannot understand the meaning. Moreover, teachersusually have to explain some language points in class. At this time, they haveto differentiate the classroom expressions between the examples. Take the nextsentence as an example, “What are you doing?” A teacher has lots of ways tomake the students understand clearly. The first way, the teacher uses a normalspeed to read. The teacher can read slowly when he does the gesture of thissentence. The second way, the teacher can also get the effect by repeating the sentence.A more frequent way is to use gestures to lay emphasis on the key points whenhe said the word “doing”. Looking at the students, the teacher reaches out hisindex finger and pauses in the air with the gesture of writing or reading, atthe same time, he speaks out the sentence. Such action will usually give thestudents a deep impression. copyright paper51.com
Secondly, body language candevelop the students' imagination. Teacher's body language is the same as the action of anactor. An actor creates a vivid visual and lively role in a play, just asteachers create the imaginative environment in class. For example, a teacher usesbody language when he plays a game with students in classroom teaching, whichis called “Look and guess”. The word is a noun or a verb, the teacher makes a gestureon the dais, then the students guess the meaning of teacher’s gesture. And theteacher speaks “Really?” or “Maybe” to assort the students. In this case,students can remember a lot of words. Their ability of imagination is improvedtoo. The students of junior high schools have abundant imagination, so theresults, which they guess are different. Some of their guessing is reasonable,but lack of creativeness, some of their guessing is novel but illegitimate, andsome of their guessing is novel and reasonable. The teacher should confirmtheir answers. http://www.paper51.com |