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1、 The Use of Body language in English Teaching ContentsAbstract 摘要 Chapter1. Introduction Chapter2. The necessity and importance of using body language in English teaching Chapter3. The concrete application of the body language in listening, speaking, reading and writing 3.1 Body language helps to im
2、prove listening 3.2 Body language helps to improve speaking 3.3 Body language helps to improve reading 3.4 Body language helps to improve writing Chapter4. The use of Various kinds of Body Language in English teaching Chapter5. Conclusion Works Cited Chapter1.IntroductionAs everyone knows ,the class
3、room teaching is one of the most important ways that the students learn English. As far as the English teaching in middle school is concerned ,teachers have to arouse the students interest so that thay may learn better .there are many ways to arouse the studentsinterest and help them to learn better
4、 ,body language used in English teaching is one of them .Body language is an important media through which people communicate with each other .It refers to the patterns of facial expressions gestures that people use to express their feelings in communication.The specialist on body language research,
5、Fen.Lafle.Angles,once said:Once it was lost,a baby couldnt have grown into a normal person.It is also ture to the juveniles.In school education,body language plays a positive role in cultivating the students characters.For,teachersare usually respected,and factually,what or how the teachers say and
6、do will be possibly imitated by the students (sometimes subconsciously).In a word,teachersgraceful body language helps to improve the students artistic-appreciation and moral character.If the students develop a wonderful body language,which will possibly leads them to form an optimistic and active f
7、eelings,they will surely have a more smooth interpersonal relation.The affection of teachersbody language on the students is reflected not only by establishing a good example,but also shortening the teacher-student estrangement by which a more harmonious studying atmosphere is created.As a matter of
8、 fact,teachers friendly appearance can greatly encourage the students studying enthusiasm.Furthermore,the characteristics of theoretic and abstraction of knowledge also requires the vivid,dramatic and an accessible gestures to make it specific and figurrative.As a result,the students interest is mot
9、ivated and the effect of teaching is greatly improved.Chapter2.The necessity and importance of using body language in English teachingEnglish teaching is a key part of the school education. With the English teaching methods reform, more and more English teachers organize the teaching process in Engl
10、ish so that they may realize the Communicated English. The communicated English means that teachers instruct the students and explain questions basically in English, and the students are also required to use English in class.Contemporarily,however, the students in yhe middle school cant speak very w
11、ell; neither can they understand why they should use different tones in different times or situations; their vocabulary and expressive ability are limited too. These limitations made it difficult to realize the Communicated English in the classes. According to the studentspresent level and practical
12、 situation, body language is required. For example, when a teacher gives an instruction: “You two,please come to the blackboard.”The students can easily undersdand it if the teacher looks at (or points to) some two students. Then, the teacher points to the blackboard. The students will carry out the
13、 order without obstacle even if they dont hear the key words “blackboard” clearly. Furthermore, teachers usually have to explain some language poimts,and at this time,they have to differentiate the classroom expressions and the examples. Take it for example, we ought to use the form have done such a
14、s Have you finished that job yet? To make the students understand clearly, a teacher has a lot of ways. To do it by speed, he uses a common speed when reading “we ought to use the form have done”, and reads slowly when giving examples;he can also get the effect by repeating the example Have you fini
15、shed that job yet;a a more frequent way is to use gestures to lay emphasis on the key points when he said “have done”(emphasizing it in voice at the same time), he reaches out his index finger,pauses in the air, and then gives out the examples. This action will usually give the students a deep impre
16、ssion. From the above we can learn, the use of body language in English teaching is necessary and pratical. In the English teaching in middle schools, body language is frequently used to improve the teaching effect and the students ability.Chapter3. The concrete application of the body language in l
17、istening, speaking, reading and writing3.1.Body language helps to improve listeningThe Greek philosopher Epictetus ever wittily said: “Nature has given man one tongue and two ears that he may hear twice as much he speaks.”From the saying we can learn how important the listening is in our daily life.
18、To understand others is a basic purpose in English teaching, and teachers often train the students listening accordingly. In this process, if the body language is used, the effect will be better.When beginning a new lesson, the teacher narrates the story outline in English.The body language may help
19、.For example, a teacher can stretch his arms slowly when he says “She is in a very big room”; he can open his eyes widely with mouth opened when he says “She is so beautiful a lady”.As a result, the students will have such an impression:She is very beautiful indeed; a teacher who imitates the crying
20、 or the movement of the animals under the premise of teaching order willsurely achieve a better effect.3.2.Body language helps to improve speakingThe spoken language is one of the important ways to communicate, so we should try to develop the students ability of speaking.Factually they are helped to
21、 reach the aim in a certain degree by their teachers body language.The contemporary emphasis is gradually laid on speaken English teaching. The first lesson of every unit in Senior English begins with a dialogue. The teaching programes require the teachers to organize the class to practise English a
22、ccording to the characteristics of the dialogue. Generally speaking, the body language can arouse and sustain the students interest of learning and using English. In the English class,the teachers should not only use body languages themselves, but also ask the students to use them according to the d
23、ifferent situations. Take it for example, the first lesson in Unit One, Book One is about the time when the new students first meet, and they dont know each other. So a teachercan introduce himself first, such as: “Hello,everyone, nice to meet you here. Now Ill introduce myself to you. My name is Ar
24、thur. I like playing basketball,for,it makes me much stronger; I like playing chess, for, it makes me more clever; and I like reading books, for, reading makes one perfect”. During the introduction, the teacher should use the new vocabularies and sentence structures together with a vivid expression
25、and mating gestures as possibly as he can. He smiles when he says hello to the class; he shakes hands with some students saying “Nice to meet you”; he writes his name down on the blackboard;he imitates the action of dribbling and shooting at the basketball,playing chess and turning pages to explain
26、his hobby. After his introduction, the teacher can create a circumstance for the students to practice: “Mary and Jack are new classmates. They are walking together in the street, and they meet one pf Jacks old friends, Yang Pei. Then Yang Pei and Mary are introduced to each other by Jack.” After the
27、 studentspractice, the dialogue is introduced naturally from it.Usually, the application of body language in different situations will result in an attracting and successful lesson.3.3. Body language helps to improve readingThe purpose of Senior English teaching is to train the studentspreliminary a
28、bility of using spoken and written English. In the senior school, we lay emphasis on the reading ability that serves the sdudentsfurther study. Here we mainly mention the helpfulness for reading aloud. Reading aloud helps the students to get a correct pronunciation and intonation and to develop the
29、combination of vocabularies pronunciation, spelling and meaning. Furthermore it also helps the sdudents to find out the articles internal feelings and appreciate the beauty of the language. A linguist ever said: “ A person is not a poem until it is read.” Reading aloud is basic in the middle school,
30、 and the teachers should make full use of body language to develop the sdudentsability of reading aloud.When reading the sentences, attention should be paid to where to speak softly,emphasize, and raise or lower our tone. To make it clear, we can imitate the strong or soft pats that are used in musi
31、c teaching,which means to use the arcs to represent different tones. Generally speaking, we use falling tones in declarative and special interrogative sentences, first rising tones and then falling tones in the choosing interrogative sentence. The students in the middle school are not often accustom
32、ed to and always confuse them; however, with the help of body language,they can solve the problem much more easily. For example,they use gestures. As they read the choosing interrogative sentence, they raise their hands in rising tones amd lower in falling tones. After training for some times, as so
33、on as they read the sentences,they will remind themselves of the gestures. As a result, there will be no problems in rightly reading the sentences at all.In a word,the vivid gestures together with the fluent English can create a good circumstance of learning, which will surely play am active part in
34、 improving the students reading ability.3.4.Body language helps to improve writingWriting is one of the basic skills of learning language,and it is so important a skill that we can even say without it, people cant communicate with others. Not only should the students get some English knowledge and v
35、ocabularies, but also the ability to communicate in spoken and written English as what is mentioned in the teaching programs. To some extent, writing is more important than speaking, for it can spread without the limitation of space and time. Since the students learn English as a media for communica
36、tion, they should have the ability of writing.To get rid of the studentsfeelings of being dull and tiring, an English teacher has to use every possible method. This is the same to the writing. Teachers use different methods in order to improve the students abilityof writing., among which, the applic
37、ation of body language can deepen the object impression, such is magnificent in developing the students writing ability.The linguist Franklin ever said, “Tell me, Ill forget; teach me, Ill remember; involve me and Ill learn.” If we asked the students to write an unfamiliar composition, they would pr
38、obably be able to and feel discouraged. However, the students can write excellent articles if they have the experience. In and out of class, we should ask the students to participate some English-related activities, and then ask they to write it down. Take “The First Snow in Winter” for example, hav
39、ing enjoyed themselves in the beautiful snowing and been given some hints, the students can write much better a composition. For contrast to their complete imagination, the students are deeply impressed by the body movement of the teachers and themselves, which surely leads to a better article.Chapt
40、er4. The use of Various kinds of Body Language in English teachingAt present time, with the English teaching methods reform, more and more English teachers organize the teaching activities in English so that they may realize the Communicative English. The Communicated English means that teachers ins
41、truct the students and explain questions basically in English, and the students are also required to use English in class. To get rid of the students feelings of being dull and tiring, an English teacher has to use every possible method. For example, when a teacher says “stand up, please” he can say
42、 as open up the palm lightly; while speaking “sit down, please”, he can use the opposite way, speaking out the hand and pressing downward to show them the contrary meaning. The students will carry out the order without obstacle even if they do not hear the key words clearly. If the students voice is
43、 too small to hear clearly, teacher may say “speak it loudly, please” and hold his hand behind the ear at the same time as to listen to him. And if the teacher wants two students to make a practice together, he can just spread out two fingers and say “in pairs”. Of course, the teacher should nod his
44、 head when saying “yes” and shake when saying “no” to let the students feel his teacher just like the conductor of a philharmonic and guide them to study by using body language. Time by time, the studentsinterest in learning English has been raised a lot. Learning English becomes an enjoyment to the
45、m. Furthermore, teachers usually have to explain some language points , and at this time, they have to differentiate the classroom expressions and the examples. Take it for example, we ought to use the form have done such as Have you finished that job yet?” T o make the students undersdand clearly,
46、a teacher has lots of ways. A more frequent way is to use gestures to lay emphasis on the key points when he said “have done”,emphasizing it in voice at the same time, he reaches out his index finger, pauses in the air, and then gives out the example. This action will usually give the students a dee
47、p impression.待添加的隐藏文字内容3Body language communicates more about you than any words you say. Without body language, the classroom would be static and colorless. Body language communicates as effectively as words, maybe even more effectively (John W ileySons,1991). Body language transfer ideas or thoughts by certain action, either intentionally or unintentionally. A nod means approval, while shaking the head indicates a negative reaction. Thumb and forefinger making a circle
