Incorporating Body Language into EFL Teaching

Abstract

In this query-based study, body language as an important non-verbal communicative technique in teaching English as a foreign language is inquired. In literature, little attention has been given to practical teaching approaches and techniques that will help English language teachers incorporate this essential element into their classrooms. This research aims at investigating the needful role of body language in the overall teaching and learning process. It considers the interplay of body language, particularly gestures, facial expressions and eye-contact behavior, between teachers and students and gives special consideration to the second language learner preferences in decoding and encoding bodily language behaviors. Likewise, specific questionnaires are used to collect data about teachers' and students’ opinions and experiences in their teaching and mannerism along with observing teachers and interviewing them. The results will help stimulating teachers' innovativeness in producing their own classroom activities and movements while teaching and better non-verbally communicate with their students in class in one hand. On the other, it facilitates students learning. It is recommended that the use and integration of body language should not be ignored by instructors.

Virtual Teaching Assistant for Capturing Facial and Pose Landmarks of the Students in the Classroom Using Deep Learning

“…The volumetric measures around the convex hull and geometric description have yielded a compact and effective feature (Nagabhushan, Singh, & Roy, 2017). Face and body detection has been used in education to communicate with the students to help them overcome their passive attitudes (Azeez & Azeez, 2018). Machine learning (ML) was introduced in the 1980s, it is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience and by the use of data to give the computers the ability to act intelligently (Mitchell, 1997) (Hutter, 2019).…”