The Application of Nonverbal Communication in Classroom Teaching

Nonverbal communication plays a vital role not only in intercultural communication,but also in classroom teaching.Using nonverbal communication exactly and compatibly in class can enrich information for the students and improve their learn ing interests.Also it will help to promote the communication between teachers and students,thus to creat good classroom teach ing atmosphere and optimize the teaching effects。There are practical benefits for teachers to apply the nonverbal communica tion in classroom teaching.

Understanding Nonverbal Communication Cues of Human Personality Traits in Human-Robot Interaction

With the increasing presence of robots in our daily life,there is a strong need and demand for the strategies to acquire a high quality interaction between robots and users by enabling robots to understand users’mood,intention,and other aspects.During human-human interaction,personality traits have an important influence on human behavior,decision,mood,and many others.Therefore,we propose an efficient computational framework to endow the robot with the capability of understanding the user’s personality traits based on the user’s nonverbal communication cues represented by three visual features including the head motion,gaze,and body motion energy,and three vocal features including voice pitch,voice energy,and mel-frequency cepstral coefficient(MFCC).We used the Pepper robot in this study as a communication robot to interact with each participant by asking questions,and meanwhile,the robot extracts the nonverbal features from each participant’s habitual behavior using its on-board sensors.On the other hand,each participant’s personality traits are evaluated with a questionnaire.We then train the ridge regression and linear support vector machine(SVM)classifiers using the nonverbal features and personality trait labels from a questionnaire and evaluate the performance of the classifiers.We have verified the validity of the proposed models that showed promising binary classification performance on recognizing each of the Big Five personality traits of the participants based on individual differences in nonverbal communication cues.

Intercultural Nonverbal Communication and Foreign Language Teaching

Nonverbal communication, which is often consciously or unconsciously neglected in foreign language teaching, is an inseparable part in human communication process. This paper will give a brief account of nonverbal communication and an analysis of the significance in improving the students’ nonverbal communicative ability in FLT. It will also provide some workable suggestions to the students on enriching their cultural knowledge of nonverbal communication so as to improve their nonverbal communicative competence in ELT.

A Study on Pragmatic Failures in Nonverbal Communication in Intercultural Communicative Context

In the intercultural communication, people often ignore the nonverbal behavior when they talk to others. With the raid progress of modern traffic and tools of communication, people’s contacts have become increasingly frequent with different regions and countries. The research on pragmatic failures in nonverbal communication allows people to understand its nature and eliminate some unnecessary misunderstanding. This paper aims at finding out the root causes about pragmatic failures in nonverbal communication in the intercultural communication, and providing several sensible recommendations.

Nonverbal Communication in College English Teaching

This thesis mainly focuses on the significance of nonverbal communication in college English teaching. On the one hand English teachers should emphasize to cultivate the students’ nonverbal communication competence while training their verbal communication ability, on the other teachers should pay attention to the use of nonverbal communication to teach effectively in college English classroom. The author illustrates the topic from four aspects: body language, paralanguage, object language and environmental language. If teachers use them actively, our students will become full-scale in communication competence and teachers can make classes more interesting thus stimulate the students’ motivation and affection in English study.

Perception of Nonverbal Communication Influenced by Culture

The concept of perception influenced by culture is pretty important in the study of intercultural communication.The perceptions of language and nonverbal language formed under various cultures intimate with each other during communication.This paper aims to explore the relationship between perception and culture in nonverbal communication through the study of eye language and body odor,and promote the communication among people of different culture as well.

Nonverbal and Intercultural Communication

Nonverbal communication is typically suggested to convey representational messages,and also particular signals are associated with specific signaler emotions and intentions.This essay will firstly address vocalization,which consist verbal and non-verbal signals.Also,other forms of physical behaviors used by humans to communicating meaning,such as gaze will be discussed.Finally,the association between culture and the encoding and decoding of different means of physical nonverbal communication will be presented.

Salivary Alpha-Amylase Reactivity under Psycho-Physiological Stress. A Nonverbal Communication Measurement Tool?

Previous studies have shown that changes in salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) levels are dependent on psychosocial stress stimulation and reflect the activity of the sympathetic nervous system. sAA measurement can be performed easily and quickly;therefore, it may be useful for evaluating psychosocial or physical stress. The aim of this preliminary study was to examine the use of sAA measurements as objective indicators of psychological and physiological stress levels by examining sAA changes in volunteers subjected to conditions similar to those suffered by children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities and cerebral paralysis. Twelve healthy volunteers were required to not move or speak, as is found in patients suffering from total paralysis, for 30 min. Saliva samples were taken at three points, and sAA activity was measured using a hand-held monitor before the test, immediately after the test, and 10 min after the test. In the present study, a marked increase in sAA activity due to physiological stress and a rapid return to the baseline level were observed. Many subjects felt bodily pain and psychotic discomfort. This measurement method is useful for evaluating stress in children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities, who can not fully express their emotions or communicate with their caregivers.

Improving college non-English majors＇ nonverbal communication competence

Under the widespread view that verbal competence is essential in foreign language acquisition. nonverbal communication has not been given sufficient attention and importance in foreign language teaching in China. In most cases in intercultural interaction, people focus on verbal cues while neglecting those nonverbal messages produced by the bodies and the environment. Such neglect often results in misunderstandings and conflicts because nonverbal communication reveals basic cultural traits from which people are able to gather clues about underlying attitudes and values. So the study of nonverbal communication is an important component to the study of intercultural communication. It deserves due attention in foreign language acquisition. Grounded on the model of cultural learning put forward by Hanvey, the study puts forward a set of feasible suggestions on how to improve intercultural nonverbal communication competence of college non-English majors.

Nonverbal Communication and Cultural Foundation in Intercultural Communication

In today＇ s era of globalization, intercultural communication has become an important subject. Space is an aspect of crosscultural communication Nonverbal communication, it implies the psychological boundaries of human communication, conducting this study helps to understand different cultures, and reduces cultural conflict. Culture reflects the characteristics of a nation, guiding people behavior in concept of society. With globalization developing, people are eager to interact with people from different cultural backgrounds, so cross-cultural communication society today is one of the most fashionable terms. The differences between cultures tend to give unexpected difficulties caused by differences.

On Understanding of Nonverbal Communication

Linguists have made effort to understand nonverbal communication. This paper tries to discuss it in new angle through its definition, functions and channels of nonverbal communication, and emphasize is importance in communicative competence.

Nonverbal Language in Intercultural Communication Application

Cross-cultural communication mainly refers to communication between people of different cultural backgrounds. Worldwide research on intercultural communication is the rise of a new field of study in recent 30 years. With the deepening of reform and opening up, China＇ s exchanges with the world are more and more frequent, China approaches to the world, and the world is also approaching the China. China should learn from the advanced experience of foreign countries, to learn all the outstanding achievements of human civilization all over the world, while the splendid Chinese culture will also be introduced to the world. In this way, it relates to the problem of cross-cultural communication.

On Body Language in Nonverbal Communication

Nonverbal communication varies with cultures and societies. This article devotes to a comparison of nonverbal communications in different cultures in terms of gestures and postures. It aims to illustrate the differences of nonverbal communication and highlight its importance as well so as to achieve the effectiveness of communication especially the cross-cultural communication.

The Effects of Nonverbal Communication on EFL Classroom Teaching

Based on the concept of communication and the five fundamental communication principles, this article discusses the defi-nition of nonverbal communication and its uses in EFL classroom teaching. Finally the effects of nonverbal communication on EFLclassroom teaching are emphasized from five aspects.

Nonverbal Communication in Commercial Housing Selling

Nonverbal communication is the process of sending and receiving messages from another person through nonverbal channels.On the ground of importance and main codes of nonverbal communication,skills of which are proposed to grasp in commercial housing selling,serving well for the successful transaction.

A Dialectical Approach to Nonverbal Communication

Nonverbal communication is an indispensable part of human interaction and plays an irreplaceable role in the communication process.This paper gives a brief introduction to the structure of nonverbal communication and discusses the pragmatic features of nonverbal behaviors from the dialectical point of view.Finally,some suggestions are made for the improvement of communicative competence.

Body Language on Nonverbal Communication

Body language is an inevitable part in human interaction and it is also a component of national culture.Body language is of great importance in human interaction,because we rely heavily on it when we communicate with others.Body language is composed of eye contact,facial expressions,physical contact,gesture and posture,etc.Though body language is a necessity in nonverbal communication,it has different meanings in different cultures.

A Study of Pharmacist-Patient Communication: Examining Optimal Distance and Angle Using an Eye-Tracking System

This study focuses on seating arrangement and interpersonal distance as important aspects of nonverbal communication and aims to elucidate the optimal distance and angle between pharmacist and patient through an analysis based on the subjective evaluation of the patient and the objective evaluation of eye movements. Seven female simulated patients and one male and one female pharmacist cooperated as patients and pharmacists, respectively. The medication teaching scenes were set up with three pharmacist placements (face-to-face at 50 cm and 70 cm, 90-degree at 70 cm) and three hospital rooms (0-degree, 45-degree, 90-degree). Pupil diameter, blink rate, saccades, and fixation rate of the patient at each of these locations were measured using a Tobii Pro Glass 2. The patient’s subjective evaluation at each placement was also investigated using the conversation scale, which assesses the optimal distance for conversation. The results for the pharmacy setting revealed that pupils were significantly more mydriatic at the 50 cm point than at the other points. The results for the hospital room setting showed the greatest mydriasis at the 0-degree point. The result of the 50 cm point for the pharmacy setting and the 0-degree point for the hospital room setting was similar to that of the subjective evaluation. When the likelihood of saccades occurrence in the hospital room setting was compared, saccades were found to be most likely to occur when medication instructions were given to patients at the 0-degree point. We believe that using pupil diameter for interpersonal distance, and saccades for angle will enable more accurate determinations of the optimal distance and angle between pharmacist and patient. The results of the present study suggest that the 70 cm face-to-face point in the pharmacy and the 45-degree point in the ward may be suitable for medication instruction.

Research on the Development Trend of English Linguistics from the perspective of Multi-culture and Cross-cultural Communication

With the continuous development and progress of society, modern society is formed by the multicultural, namely, an important feature of today’s society is the diversity of cultures. English language and culture course combines both foreign language and cultural characteristics, which has very strong artistic and theoretical factors. Language is a part of culture, and plays an important role in culture. Language and culture are inseparable, if students do not understand the cultural background of foreign languages, cannot correctly understand and use foreign language. In the process of college English teaching, how to carry out cultural teaching and improve students’ cross-cultural communicative competence has become an important topic in English teaching and learning. In order to help students overcome obstacles in intercultural communication and cultivate students’ intercultural communicative competence, we should improve the level of college English teaching by integrating culture factors into English teaching. The culture we need to learn is not limited to the culture of the English-speaking countries. The cultural teaching in English teaching requires an all-round import

Body Language in Intercultural Communication

It is known that different countries have different culture. The cultural divergence brings along different ways of making communication. By comparing and contrasting the examples of body language in China and English-speaking countries, we can recognize the cultural divergence and their impacts on intercultural communication. Have known these facts, we can improve our capacity in intercultural communication in order to make communication successful.