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1、TheUseofBodyLanguageinMiddleSchools1. Body language helps to improve listening The Greek philosopher Epictetus ever wittily said: Nature has given man one tongue and two ears that he may hear twice as much as he speaks. From the saying we can learn how important the listening is in our daily life. T
2、o 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 hel
3、p. 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
4、 or the movement of the animals under the premise of teaching order will surely achieve a better effect.2. Body language helps to improve speaking The 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
5、to reach the aim in a certain degree by their teachers body language.The contemporary emphasis is gradually laid on spoken English teaching. The first lesson of every unit in Senior English begins with dialogue. The teaching programs require the teachers to organize the class to practice English acc
6、ording to the characteristics of 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 differ
7、ent situation. 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 teacher can introduce himself first, such as: Hello, everyone, nice to meet you here. Now Ill introduce myself to you. My name is Arthur.
8、 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 and
9、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 name down on the blackboard; he imitates the action of dribbling and shooting at the basketball, playing chess and turning pages to explain his hobb
10、y. After his introduction, the teacher can create a circumstance for the students to practice: Mary and J ack are new classmates. They are walking together in the street, and they meet one of J acks old friends, Yangpei. Then Yangpei and Mary are introduced to each other by J ack. After the students
11、 practice 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. Body language helps to improve reading The purpose of Senior English teaching is to train the students preliminary ability o
12、f using spoken and written English. In the senior school, we lay emphasis one the reading ability that serves the students further study. Here we mainly mention the helpfulness for reading aloud(朗读). Reading aloud helps the students to get a correct pronunciation and intonation and to develop the co
13、mbination of vocabularies pronunciation, spelling and meaning. Furthermore it also helps the students to find out the articles internal feelings and appreciate the beauty of the language. A linguist ever said: A poem is not a poem until it is read. Reading aloud is basic in the middle school, and th
14、e teachers should make full use of body language to develop the students ability 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 music tea
15、ching, which means to use the arcs to represent different tones. Generally speaking, we use falling tones in declarative and special interrogative sentence, first rising tones and then falling tones in the choosing interrogative sentence. The students in the middle school are not often accustomed to
16、 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 and lower in falling tones. After training for some times, as soon
17、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 gesture together with the fluent English can create a good circumstance of learning, which will surely play an active part in i
18、mproving the students reading ability.4. Body language helps to improve writing. Writing is one of the four 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
19、and vocabularies, but also the ability to communicate in spoken and written English as what is mentioned in the teaching programs. To some extent, writing is much more important than speaking, for it can spread without the limitation of space and time. Since the students learn English as a media for
20、 communication, they should have the ability of writing.To get rid of the students feelings of being dull and tiring, an English teacher has to use every possible method. This is the same to the writing. Teachers use different method in order to improve the students ability of writing, among which,
21、the application 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
22、would probably be unable 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 them to write it down. Take The First Snow in Winter for exam
23、ple, having 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.
