Non-verbal language: teachers’ use and students’ perception

Abstract

Non-verbal language gives positive perception how their teachers use nonverbal language in the class and it has a lot of positive impacts in teaching and influence their comprehension when they are taught. There positive impacts were known; fun teaching and learning, helping students’ imagenation, interested learning and so on. The aim of the research is to describe EFL students’ perception of using non-verbal language in their classes and to describe the use of non-verbal language by EFL teachers. The method of this research uses descriptive qualitative as research design. The research involved four participants from English department of Universitas Islam Malang, two students with GPA 3.5 to 4.0 and two lecturers who have been six years in English teaching. For collecting data was used two kinds of instrument, interview sheet for teachers and interview sheet for learners, and it helped by expert with Indonesia question sheets and online interview. The data were analyzed using Borg (2010), the theory for kinds of nonverbal language and Matthew & Huberman (1994), the theory for how the data analyzed. the researcher took all information from raw data including, interview sheet for lecturer and the students. The irrelevant data is cut, important information selected by the researcher. After the data being reduced, the researcher displays the data, and explained the main important and detail information that had been being selected before in the form of written text. The result shows finding that non-verbal language help teachers to convey the communication they give while teaching and learning process in creating teaching and learning effective. The types of commonly used body movement, use of sound, distance and clothing.