Using Body Language in Language Teaching

This course paper studies what body language is, its importance in the classroom and why teachers should use it while teaching students. Especially when teaching foreign languages, the teacher's teaching body language has a great impact on the effectiveness of the lesson and understanding the lessons topic. In classroom, using body language can help the lesson to be interesting and interactive and students can easily learn and understand the basic meaning of the topic. It is an important method for teachers to learn about the students by noticing the students’ body language. Teachers can figure out whether students understand all that a teacher said and explained or not by watching the students’ expressions in their eyes, on their faces and noticing their actions. In this research, experiment was done with schoolchildren and the importance of body language was analyzed with questionnaire This study searches that foreign languages should be taught with using body language and it is one of the most significant aspects during teaching foreign languages and it was considered while experiment. It is effective for learners to understand and easily learn languages. In this course paper we are going to analyze and reveal the importance of body language and it is helpful in teaching methods that teachers use during the lesson, especially impact on progress of students and some points about using body language to EFL/ESL learners.