Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Article: Body Language

     
  When we communicate with others, we express our thoughts and feelings not only through the words we choose, but also through our tone of voice, facial expression and body language. In fact, many communications experts believe that far
more information is communicated non-verbally (without words) than verbally (with words). "Body language" is an important part of non-verbal communication.
      Body language includes many different aspects of our every day physical behaviour: the way we greet one another; how we stand, how we sit or walk; the way we position our arms and legs or use our hands and eyes are some of the most basic.
      To learn another language is more than just learning words and grammar, it involves learning about another culture, too. We learn much of our own culture's body language before we learn to speak, from the time we are children, usually without even being aware of it.  And that body language varies from culture to culture, so it's something to which second language learners should pay attention. It's worth learning, understanding any underlying cultural or regional attitudes can help you learn how to understand and use body language to improve your communicative abilities.

My comment for this article:
Body language is one of the way that we evaluate people based on their movement and etc. It is such an advantage for people that have knowledge regarding body language. Because we can know a little bit about that person from afar just by looking at their body movement. For instance, when we're lying our eyes is small and our voice will be slow. I don't know if this true or not but it is based on what people are saying. We can also apply this knowledge not only at human but also animals. I wish i can learn about this body language because for me having knowledge about body language is just awesome! :)

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