Abstract
This article discusses the importance of the students’ spontaneous smile in the EFL classroom interaction and its implication for their oral production. The ...
Highlights
Communicating is much more than expressing ideas and feelings through words
Since this study focused on face-to-face interaction in the classroom context, the conversation analysis (CA) was the trend of analysis used for the data transcription
According to the objectives held by CA, as well as the principles that underlie a qualitative research, three aspects need to be taken into account for the analysis: (1) the contextual information, that is, what happens in the event itself; (2) the interlocutors’ characteristics, which means their social and cultural background; and (3) the interlocutors’ communicative strategies, that is, the verbal and nonverbal elements used throughout the interactive encounter (ARMENGAUD, 2006; GOFFMAN, 2002; KERBRAT-ORECCHIONI, 2006; MARCUSCHI, 1991; SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFERSON, 1978)
Summary
Communicating is much more than expressing ideas and feelings through words. A simple gaze can reveal either a sensation of pleasure or disgust. As part of the process of human communication, reveal different types of communicative meanings throughout gestures, eye contact, facial expressions and body language. What the person does while conversing might strongly sign his/her personal feelings much more than when it is verbally expressed. Talking to a work colleague with crossed arms and a steady position, for example, might sign the person’s discomfort on the topic discussion or the person’s desire to talk about something different at that time. The way people look at each other and sign their body movements in conversations might be known as nonverbal indicatives of complementing or contradicting the exchanged messages among interlocutors
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