Kurdish EFL Student Teachers’ Nonverbal Communication in Classroom: a Case Study at some Schools in Akre City

Abstract

This paper tried to investigate the use of Kurdish EFL student teachers’ non- verbal communication in classroom. It included qualitative method. The instrument of the research was classroom observation. The participants were Kurdish EFL student teachers from the Department of English - College of Education - Akre - University of Duhok. The finding showed that Kurdish EFL student teachers used various kinds of nonverbal communication such as; gesture, posture, eye contact, facial expression, touch, voice or vocal expression, the use of distance and appearance. They use the various type of non-verbal communication in different situations and for different matters during their teaching classes.