First of all, body language shows students visual things, auditory sense straightforwardly。 So, it will improve pupils’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills。

Then, as a general rule, a 40-minutes class is very difficult for pupils to concentrate。 Combining with body language can get students interested in English learning。 During the process of English teaching, teachers should encourage students from time to time。 来*自-优=尔,论:文+网www.chuibin.com

When students collaborate with teachers actively and teachers should praise them or ask all students to give them a warm welcome, such as clap。

Thirdly, teaching effects of English teaching is another benefit of using body language。 Body language throughout a whole English teaching process no matter a teacher instruct students to get vocabulary, sentences or passage。 Body language makes teaching process much easier than English teaching without any body movements (Liao Yan, 2015:2)。 

The application of teachers’ body language in teaching has been a long history of more than 400 years。 An American psychologist concluded, “Total effect of information can be achieved by 7 percent words and 38 percent tonalities and 55 percent facial expressions and body movements。 Professor Ray Birdwhistell (In Kinesics and Context, 1970:86-87) concluded that when people in communication face to face, 65 percent unspoken language and 35 percent spoken language included。 So, body language plays an important role in communication。 James Asher (1977) put forward a new system of teaching。 This was called Total Physical response。 The TPR largely depends on proper use of body language。 TPR is propitious to English language learners in the first stage (Zhang Qin, 2005:2)。 All evidence shows the power of body language in many occasions。