The Effect of the Teachers' Body Language in the Classroom. The Case of Second Year EFL Learners

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Miscellaneous course: Applied Linguistic language: English abstract: The present study is an attempt to shed the light on the effect of teachers' positive body language on EFL learners' motivation. The study examines to what extent teachers' positive body language can (1) reduce learners' boredom and create positive and active energy in the classroom (2) increase learners' motivation (3) it is a further attempt to determine the major traits of the effective teaching based on the use of positive body language. It takes the form of correlation research since it deals with the effect of teachers' positive body language on EFL learners' motivation. Teachers need to know that the way the teacher presents the lesson with different positive body language messages is definitely affected learners' motivation. So in order to gain a deeper understanding of the effect of teachers' positive body language on EFL teaching and learning the data is collected by using observation and questionnaire. The chosen population for this study has been selected from the second year learners of Ahmed Zaid Middle School of Biskra. Therefore the two available classes have been selected as representative sample for this research where the teachers' body language observed differently. Thus the researcher has observed learners' attitudes during six weeks to examine their affection to the positive body language. Moreover the closed questionnaire has been designed to survey the notion of using different body language messages as a teaching tool taking into consideration the EFL learners viewpoint. Consequently the results obtained from this research revealed that the hypothesis suggested in this study about teachers' positive body language can be applied successfully as a motivational strategy to enhance the EFL learners' motivation.