Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Teacher's Gesture in the Classroom




Mastering language mime and gesture is one of the requirements of  to be professional English teacher. The English teacher who master the competence and skill of the English, but he can not transfer it to the students in a good way, the students must face difficulties to pick up the information the teacher transfer. The English teacher who has been considered the master of English, but in explaining the topic, he just stands up in front of the students without using appropriate mime and gesture in conveying the meaning, this teacher seems to be monotonous teacher.
Using mime and gesture plays important role in teaching language. One of the importances of activating mime and gesture in teaching language is to make the meaning of English more explicit. The students may get difficulty to understand certain meaning word of English. When the teacher uses gesture or mime to explain what the word means, the students seem catch the meaning easily. Using mime and gesture is also suggested in teaching English since in the classroom, there are variety of students who have different learning style. The English teacher who is able to use mime and gesture in conveying English meaning does not only help the audio students to understand it, but he also helps the visual students to make the meaning clear. Furthermore, using mime and gesture is considered important to create fun or joyful classroom circumstance. The students to be very enthusiastic when looking at their teacher teaching in attractive way (activating many part of his body in conveying the meaning).

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