KINESICS AND PROXEMICS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS: AN ANALYSIS

Communicating effectively is the basis of human sustainable development. Verbal communication has been given importance in all sectors of life including the field of education. How much efficiency the teacher depicts in transacting the skill of communication in English language classroom lies the success of the development of fourfold skills of English language among students. Being a second language in India, teaching of English language, seeks much importance with meaningful verbal and nonverbal communication. This paper deals with the importance of kinesics and proxemics in English language classrooms. Use of nonverbal communication in teaching of prose and poetry along with teaching of grammatical structures in English language is described in the paper. An in-depth analysis of importance of nonverbal communication in building achievement motivation and building self confidence among students is done by the investigator. The paper is also making an attempt to give certain criteria and cues to understand and interpret body language of students in the English language classroom. Use of proxemics in English language classroom is also highlighted in the study.