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ncing students is often in the nonverbal aspects of teaching and communication. Students are often more attentive to what teachers do than to what they say. Teachers need to concern themselves with visual issues and body language in communication and teaching. In general speaking, nonverbal symbol communicate two-way emotion of both teacher and students to send the teaching message successfully; nonverbal symbol can attract attention of students which is beneficial to organize and optimize teaching; nonverbal symbol conveys more rich and vivid message of knowledge to increase density of message and degree of students’ acceptance of useful message. [5](P17-18) Teachers can benefit a lot from body language: Firstly, the teachers can penetrate into students’ inner thought and get a proper way to communicate with the students by correctly identifying their body language; secondly, body language can be used effectively by teachers to show their rich emotions. To be a good teacher, it is very important to set yourself as a good example. Good communicative techniques in both verbal and nonverbal ways can help you to be an attractive communicator. Here, we mainly focus on body language to show how it plays its role in teaching. Effective teachers know instinctively how to use effective body languages to gain and hold students’ interest. They are also aware of the impact that body languages have upon students and are always looking for opportunities to incorporate these into their lessons. 5.2.1Physical appearance Physical attractiveness is an advantage in interpersonal communication. Physical appearance is especially important during first impressions. This rule also works between teachers and students. Generally speaking, the students have formed a conception that the fat teacher is kind and easygoing, but the thin one is serious and incommunicative. A beautiful or handsome teacher is more easily attractive than the common one. A beautiful voice can absorb the student, but young teacher with strong body and butch haircut can frighten the students. 5.2.2Use of eyes “Eyes are windows of the soul.” Eyes, an important part on our faces, can convey the subtlest emotion. Eye contact plays an important role in the communication between teachers and students. A good teacher always knows how to use eye contact. Teachers often have a face to face communication with the students, so eye contact can be described in the following kinds: seriousness, attention, warmth, and negative eye expression. 5.2.3Facial expression A smile gives positive feedback and impacts the affective domain by communicating pleasure, trust, friendliness, interest, excitement, or surprise; a deadpan expression communicates distrust, low energy, and disinterest. Friendly and sincere smile of teachers can make the communication relax which can remove the barrier of students caused by nervousness and shyness. At the same time smile can show the confidence of the teachers as well as enhance the reliance of students to the teachers. When the teacher is listening to the reply of students, the signals sent by the smile are “I’m listening to you carefully”, “what you said are wonderful” etc. Sometimes it can help to encourage students to express their ideas freely. According to my experience, foreign teachers are good at using facial expression to attract students. Take my oral teacher, a Canadian, for example. He is a lovely old man with rich emotions and has