Research On The Nonverbal Communication Between China And English-speaking Countries And Teaching Chinese As A Second Language

Intercultural communication includes two forms: one is verbal communication, the other one isnonverbal communication. As one of the communication tools of human beings, language is obviouslyimportant, but it is not the only tool. When communicating with others by verbal means, people alsomobilize posture, expression, gesture, clothing, space and other means to spread information, however,these nonverbal means are often overlooked by humans. In recent years, teaching Chinese as a secondlanguage (i.e. TCSL) has started to pay attention to the subject of Intercultural communication, and manyuniversities opened up related courses about Intercultural communication, but they tend to attach moreimportance to verbal communication, neglecting the important role of implicit nonverbal communicationand the combination of nonverbal communication and TCSL. In the perspective of nonverbalcommunication, the article put emphasis on the cultural differences of nonverbal communication betweenchina and English-speaking countries, and investigate the teaching methods of nonverbal communication inTCSL class, as well as teachers how to use nonverbal communication to improve the classroom efficiencyand optimize the teaching effect.This thesis is divided into five sections. The first chapter is the introduction, introducing nonverbalcommunication’s research background, research value, and nonverbal communication’s research situationat home and abroad. The second chapter is about the theoretical summary of nonverbal communication,discussing the nonverbal communication’s definition, the difference between nonverbal communication andverbal communication, nonverbal communication’s functions, sorts, moreover explaining the relationshipof nonverbal communication and culture, and nonverbal communication’s important role in Intercultural communication. The third chapter summarizes the cultural differences’ performance between china andEnglish-speaking countries, discussing from the aspects of body language, paralanguage, object language,environmental language and etiquette norms, and attributing to the differences of values, high contextculture and low context culture and of thinking ways. The forth chapter is about the teaching study ofnonverbal communication, probing the feasible teaching methods of nonverbal communication in TCSLclassroom, and the revelation which nonverbal communication gives to TCSL. The fifth chapter is theconclusion.