浅谈教师的课堂表现对学习者学业成就的影响((4)
2017-08-06 03:40
导读：There are many kinds of body language, among which eye contact is most important because it is not only time and effort saving, but also a secret communicative tool between teachers and learners. Eye
There are many kinds of body language, among which eye contact is most important because it is not only time and effort saving, but also a secret communicative tool between teachers and learners.
Eye contact is an important part of communication, yet teachers often forget about or underestimate the use of eye contact in their own and their students' performance.
4.1The Reason of Using Eye Contact in Classroom Teaching
There are many reasons why teachers should make full use of eye contact in the process of language teaching:
First, the teacher should regulate the classroom discipline. Some of them often complain about classroom discipline, lack of attention, and many other problems, yet they seldom use eye contact or gesture to stop the discipline problems. Imagine that you are in the midst of helping a struggling student who has almost "got it". At the same time, out of the corner of your eye, you catch someone absent minded. You look up to see one student poking another as they both giggle. This is your time to act. Send nonverbal cues immediately (making eye contact, moving to that direction, pointing toward his or her work) to the offender. If you fail to commit to the problem as soon as you see it, then all your classroom rules are nothing but hot air.
Second, the teacher should try to arouse his students’ interest in learning the language and make every classroom task meaningful and interesting. When a student performs a task or answers a question successfully, the teacher should give positive feedback, such as looking at him with a smile or nodding your head, and praise him in time so as to extrinsically motivate them.
Furthermore, foreign language teachers are duty bound to know how to raise their students’ confidence in coping with their learning task. The teacher should often stimulate the learners’ activity (be active to learn), patiently make the learners confident in learning.
Not all the students are intrinsically motivated to succeed; they are always watching at the teacher. As the leader of the learners, teachers should keep skimming the class frequently in order to notice and respond to potential problems. If you look at students when you are teaching, you send a message that the content is important and make a connection with the students that keeps their attention. Make sure that you look around the room and do not just focus on one person or one section of the room.
（科教作文网http://zw.ΝsΕAc.com发布） Eye contact is, fundamentally, a useful and secret tool of a proficient teacher.
4.2 Physiological Structure of Eyes
Since 1960’s, with the development of humanistic psychology, the effect of using eye contact in language teaching began to arouse great attention. One's eyes are the window of the soul, and the soul is the source of the expression in one's eyes. Eyes are focuses that can't conceal the emotion in the human body. Morris, the author of “human body’s secret language”, lays such a definition for eyes of mankind--Its diameter is about 2.5 centimeters, but it seems as if the most complicated television camera that has had since the Stone Age. It contains 137 million sensitization cells, which can deal with 1,500,000 pieces of information at the same time. They have got the capabilities of analysis and integration. The information received here will be transferred to the brain and then be reflected by the action of the eyes. And the expressions in eyes that die promptly in the twinkling, can also transfer ten million messages, express abundant emotion and purpose, and reveal the secret of the depths of your heart. So, each kind of eye movement: the turning of the eyeball, the open and shut of the eyelid, the direction of the eye sight, is exchanging information.
