JOURNAL NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION

6th November

NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION

This class was based on three topics: Introduction to teaching pragmatics, developing pragmatic competence in the classroom and nonverbal communication, there are so interesting topics, but the one that I liked the most was nonverbal communication, first the teacher did a pop quiz, about the reading she sent us before, we have to choose only one of the three questions, that one we wanted to answer. Personally I chose the following question: Is it necessary to teach no-verbal communication? Why? In what way can it be taught?, In fact I did not have time to read all the three documents, although there were short and easy to understand, I could answer better if I had read all document.

Then, we were in groups of three people, we could socialize our answers, it was good because we had different opinions and we also could clarify some concepts. This topic is so important, because is the way we have to take into account the importance and the objective of pragmatic, and how can we teach pragmatic in a future class, especially nonverbal communication, which is the body language, gestures or mimic as an accompaniment to spoken language, also it is important because 90% of communication takes place through voice tone, sounds and variety of devices, such movement, touch, eye contact, etc.

Finally, each group gave one example about nonverbal communication, and those helped me to understand better, this was a very useful topic that we can use in future, in different contexts, topics or English classes.