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.