Essay on Body Language

Man's being a social entity, is the result of his living together with others. In this way, we tend to recognize the world out of us as well as ourselves, by establishing relationships with them. By the help of this relationship, a communication medium becomes true. While the communication individual realized with the ones out of himself is called " interpersonal communication " , mentioned communication's being sustainable depends on the effectiveness of the communication. And to assure an effective communication medium, communication abilities must be effective, too. An effective communication is undeniably important especially in interpersonal communication. In this context, it is known that bodylanguage was effective in communications being effective and healthy. In this way, it is possible to say that body language had a serious contribution on making the messages sent and taken between source and taker more clear, and on their becoming more understandable and significant in interpersonal communication. Moving through this thoughts, importance of body language in an effective interpersonal communication had been supported with informations gained through literature review, and it had been explained by examples how important body language was in an effective communication and which way it contributed communication, in this study.

Nowadays, communication plays an important part in every area of our lives. Like all language skills, speaking is also a crucial factor to second/foreign language acquisition. This research was carried out to investigate the use of body language in speaking by the English majors at Thai Nguyen University of Education, Vietnam (TUE). Particularly, the researchers purposed to a) to investigate the use of body language in speaking by the English majors at TUE, b) to find out whether or not there are difficulties in the use of body language by the students of English, c) to offer implications in strategies for using body language. The participants of this study were 107 students of English at TUE. Questionnaire and observation were used to gather data. Findings indicated that although most of the participants’ speaking ability was acceptable, they could not make a persuasive and effective speech or presentations. There were two reasons for this. First, they focused too much on the content that they were going to present while they neglected the importance of nonverbal communication (body language). Second, they seemed to lack nonverbal communication techniques because they have not been taught the use of body language systematically and adequately. From these facts, the researchers suggested implications for using body language effectively. These included raising the awareness of use body language, and strategies for effective nonverbal communication techniques. The researchers hope that their process of learning speaking will evolve and improve after the students of English are provided with strategies for using body language.

International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies, 2019

For many people who work as presenters, lecturers, or public speakers, they use many tools to deliver their messages besides verbal language. Body Language is the nonverbal aspect of any face-to-face communication, and it is an effective way to establish an authentic relationship between the addresser and the addressee. We learn body language from our childhood just like learning spoken language, without realizing that we do. The difference is that while our linguistic mistakes are corrected, our body language mistakes can be missed or misinterpreted, so we grow up communicating not in the way we should. This paper will tackle types of body language and deal with some differences that are encountered in different cultures in terms of using body movements that accompany speech. The paper will be devoted to exploring how to read basic body language, and as an example, reading body language in terms of gender differences will be discussed. It will also provide information about the teacher's nonverbal behavior, and finally will deal briefly with the student's body language and how it is recognized by the teacher.

Theoretical & Applied Science, 2020

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