Enhancing EFL Students' Motivation through Teachers’ Kinesics: A Case Study in the Private School “HiMi” Tizi-ouzou
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Date
2019
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UNIVERSITE MOULOUD MAMMERI TIZI-OUZOU
Abstract
The present study investigates the English foreign language teachers’ use of kinesics and its effectiveness in enhancing learners’ motivation from a Multimodal approach. This research is centred around three objectives. First, it aims at checking whether private school teachers of English in HiMi at Tizi-Ouzou use their kinesic behaviour (body language) in the classroom when teaching English. Second, it strives to discover to which extent teachers’ body language can develop EFL learners’ motivation. Third this study seeks to explore the perceptions of the participants towards the teachers’ ‘use of their body language as language teaching and learning tool. To reach these aims, the mixed method approach is adopted which combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. In addition, a likert-scale type questionnaire has been used to check the attitudes and perceptions of the participants which turned to be positive after the analysis and discussion about teachers’ use of their kinesic behaviour to learn better English. Moreover, for the sake of collecting data about the issue addressed in this investigation, a classroom observation is adopted as an additional research tool. On the basis of study, we conclude that teachers’use of their kinesic behaviour is an effective teaching strategy that EFL teachers adopt inside their classes to foster and enhance learners’motivation. We also found that private school pupils favour the teachers who use their body language because it permits them to have positive attitudes towards learning English.
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30cm.; 63p.; tabl.+cd
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EFL, teachers’ kinesics, learners’ motivation, language teaching.
Citation
Didactics of Foreign Languages