Like any spoken language, body language has words, sentences and punctuation.Each gesture is like a single word and one word may have several different meanings.

1. BODY LANGUAGE

2. How Does Body Speak?
- Like any spoken
language, body
language has words,
sentences and
punctuation.
- Each gesture is like a
single word and one
word may have
several different
meanings.

3. BODILY SPEAKING…
 According to the social anthropologist, Edward
T. Hall, in a normal conversation between two
persons, less than 35% of the social meanings
is actually transmitted by words.
 So, at least 65% of it is conveyed through the
body (non-verbal channel).

4. Let’s Examine How Body Communicates, from head to
toes

5. HEAD
- Nodding the head
- Tossing the head backward
- Rocking head slowly, back and forth

6. FACE

7. FACE
* Facial expressions reflect emotion, feelings
and attitudes.

8. EYES
* Eye contacts
* Raising eyebrows
* Staring
* Closed eyes

9. HANDS
* Of all the body parts, the hands are probably
used most for communicating non-verbally.
* Hand waves are used for greetings,
beckoning, or farewells.

10. HANDS (Cont’d)
* Greeting
* Waving
* Beckoning
* Pointing
* Signaling
* Clapping

11. HANDS (Cont’d)
* Handshaking is a form of
greeting in most Western
cultures.
* In the Middle East, a gentle grip
is appropriate.
* In most Asian cultures, a gentle
grip and an avoidance of direct
eye contact is appropriate.

12. Legs
* Walking
* To reach out to participants
* Control on pace of movement
* Standing
* Posture
* Using the podium

13. FOR ALL OF US…
• Becoming sensitive to the clues of
body language can help us
communicate more effectively with
students.

14. • We can understand what
students are saying even
when they are not talking.
 We can sense when
students are silent and
digesting information, or
when they are silent and
confused.

15.  We can share feelings too
strong or too difficult to be
expressed in words,
 Or decode secret
messages passing
silently from person to
person,

16.  And we may spot
contradictions between
what students say and
what they really mean.
 Finally, we can learn to
be more sensitive to our
own bodies – to see how
they express our feelings
and to see ourselves as
others see us.

17. • We do not have bodies; we
are our bodies.