Nonverbal Language in Foreign Language Teaching

DOI

10.2991/mshsd-17.2018.71How to use a DOI?

Keywords

body language, courtesy, verbal/nonverbal language, culture, foreign language teaching

Abstract

Communication is a combination of verbal and nonverbal languages, which both vary in different cultures. Sometimes they conflict to each other in the teaching of foreign languages. For example it is very common in China that when a teacher is speaking English in classroom, his body language from Chinese culture is unconsciously employed in the meanwhile. The students accept the fact potentially that this body language is a part of foreign language. When they try to express the same body language with a foreigner, misunderstanding takes place as a consequence. From this perspective, body language should be treated as an important portion of foreign language teaching. In this paper, the author addresses and discusses such problems specifically so that some useful advices can be proposed to enhance the future foreign language teaching.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chong Guo
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Nonverbal Language in Foreign Language Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 World Conference on Management Science and Human Social Development (MSHSD 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 365
EP  - 368
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mshsd-17.2018.71
DO  - 10.2991/mshsd-17.2018.71
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