Exploring The Body Language In Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

Intercultural communication comprises: verbal communication and nonverbal communication. But we pay more attention to language learning and ignore the importance of nonverbal factors in language teaching. In fact, nonverbal communication serves as a complement to verbal communication and even replaces verbal communication.Body language is an important part of nonverbal communication and plays an important part in Chinese teaching. It’s helpful to verbal communication and makes it perfect. This essay introduces body language briefly first and talks about the classification of body language. And then introduces the function of body language in Chinese teaching, as well as its concrete application in phonetic teaching, Chinese character teaching, vocabulary teaching and grammar teaching. The final part is the main part of the essay-the survey and design of body language application in Chinese teaching. Through the survey of body language application in class, we know the importance of body language in Chinese teaching. And it also offers some questions and proposals in Chinese teaching, designs the process of body language application in integrated curriculum. We should pay attention to nonverbal factors in language teaching and try to avoid its negative affects in cross-cultural communication.