Nonverbal Behavior Study In Middle School Physical Education Interaction

Since the national implementation of basic education course reform, interaction in physical education has become a hot spot. Interaction between teachers and students is such a special kind of interpersonal behavior that teachers communicate with students during the class not only through language, but also non-verbal communication. It is worth noting that non-verbal communication between teachers and students is helpful in transmitting information, establishing the atmosphere, consolidating the relationship, and handling the process of teaching. As we all know, physical education almost happens in the open air and the surrounding environment plays an important role in orderly teaching. So here comes teacher’s nonverbal behavior. Middle school students always have strong desire for interpersonal interaction especially in the forming period of their cognition, emotion, values and so on. Thus it is very essential for teachers to communicate with students by combing language with nonverbal behavior, such as some gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, and so on. This thesis further analyses the non-verbal behavior, which is relate to the teacher. It deeply combines classroom interaction between teachers and students. It is also the first time to study students’ non-verbal behavior in physical education. The results would deeply improve the physical education and increase teaching-learning feedback. It would improve the teaching efficiency and provide reference function to the PE teaching reform.The paper studies nonverbal behavior in middle school physical education interaction by using observation methods, Delphi technique and so on. The results are as follows: 1. Sports teacher’s nonverbal behavior in classroom contains smiling, looking around, nodding, applauding, correcting bodies, erecting thumb, taking back, action demonstration and whistling; and students shows nodding, smiling, looking, clapping, bowing, erecting thumb, anger or joy; 2. In the physical education interaction classroom for the middle school, we can include the nonverbal behavior of teacher to three types, that is, positive, natural and negative. Both categories include the conscious and unconscious behavior; 3. On the frequency of nonverbal behavior usage, there is a difference existing between high quality video education and the general physical education; Due to different teachers’ age, gender, and class grade, type, teaching of physical education content and so on, the frequency of teachers’ nonverbal behavior in physical education class is different and so it is with students; 4. High quality video and the general physical education class transferring queue formation have a certain influence to the nonverbal behavior between teachers and students; Seen from the videos of high quality tutorial sports teaching class, organization formations are round, arc, U, L, which narrows the distance between teachers and students; 5. Different nonverbal behaviors between teachers and students on the different teachers’ leadership style lead to the gradually changes of the relationship between teachers and students. The teachers’ leadership in this paper can be divided into three types: guidance-obey, instruction, autonomous collaboration. In addition, different teachers and different teaching contents can lead to a different proportion of each model in the parts of a lesson, and so it is with the relationship between teachers and students; 6. Nonverbal behavior in Gym Classroom Interaction features uncertainty, demonstration, diversity and instantaneity; 7. Based on observation of the Physical Educational Classroom nonverbal behavior, we can optimize the nonverbal behavior in Physical Education Class from teachers’ teaching, learning manner and teaching environment three aspects.