Elementary School age Ahildren in the Learning English

In daily activity we can look many veriety of body language, in a community, in a group, in the school, in the family between brother and sister, parent and son, moreover child and child.Body language, in this case mean – what we want we say with our mouth. For example, when we hungry, we hold our stomach.
It’s olso happens in the proccess of learning English in elementary school, the body language is very important to know the children understand or not about the lesson from the teacher. Body language is non-verbal movements, which we make as a part of how we communicate, from waving hands to invouluntary twitching of facial muscle. Body language is a term for communication using body movements or gestures instead of, or other in addition to, sound, verbal language or other communication. It forms parts of the category of paralanguage,which describes all forms of human communication that are not-verbal language. This includes the most subtle of movements that many people are not aware of, including winking and slight movement of the eyebrows.
Four parts of body language; Hoptic Communication or communication by touch, Kinesic Communication or communication by body movement, Poxemic Communication or communicartion by body positioning. and Gesture Tyipe : emblems and more.
Hoptic communication is communicating by touch. This is used in a number of contexs and also has dangers for the unwary as touching, for example where another person can in particular circumstance, be enterpereted as assault. Then, touch is often intimate and can be used as an act of domination or friendship, depending on the context and who is touching who, how and when. Touch provides a direct contact with the other person. This varies greatly with the purpose and setting. Touch can be negative as well as positive and a slap or a punch sends a very strong message (that may well get the message sender into very deep trouble!). Touching is a common part of many greeting rituals, from shaking hands to cheek-kissing to full-body hugs. Touching can show friendship and can also be seen as a dominative act. Use it accordingly and understand how it is interpreted.
Kinesic communication or,”It’s Not What You Say But How you Say It”, is communicating by body movement and is perhaps the most well-known non-verbal form of communication, although it is not the only w ay to talk with others without words. Kinesics communication is the interpretation of body language such as facial expressions and gestures—or, more formally, non-verbal behavior related to movement, either of any part of the body or the body as a whole (see, understanding body language : Birdwhistell’s, Theory Of Kinesics; The study of body-motion as related to the non-verbal aspects of interpersonal communication). The term was first used in 1952 by Ray Birdwhistell.
Birdwhistell arqued that all movements of the body have meaning (ie,are not accidental), and that these non-verbal forms of language (or paralanguage) have a grammar that can be analysed in similar terms to spoken language. Thus, a “kineme” is “similar to a phoneme because it consists of a group of movements which are not identical, but which may be used interchangeably without affecting social meaning” (Knap 1972:94-95). No more than 30 to 35 percent of the social meaning of a conversation or an interaction is carried by the word. Kinesic are used as signs of deception by interviewers. Interviewers look for clusters of movements to determine the veracity of the statement being uttered. Kinesics are important part of non-verbal communication behavior. The movement of the body, or separate parts, convey many specific meanings and the interpretations may be culture bound.
Proxemic communication is communicating with others by virtue of the relative positioning of your bodies. There are different parts of the world where people act differently. Ther primary territory of a person is their personal area, which may be a house, a bedroom, a den or study, where they feel most at home. Here, they can be themselves and be relaxed. Secondary territory is where they also feel comfortable,this may be natural places such as bars and restaurant or other private places such as at a friend’s house.Public territory is not owned by us or people we trust, but it is neutral.this includes streets, park and other publuck places. Interaction territory is a temporary private space where I’am having a conversation wirh others, this may be in a caffe’ or even moving along a corridor.Personal space is around the body includes a number of concentric circles where the closer areas are reserved for more trusted people. Body angling, bodies may be angled with other people ranging from side-to-side to face-to-face. Direct face-to-face can be confrontational or intimate and so many conversations are held with people sitting or standing at an angle to one another.
Gestures and bodily movements play an important part in religious ritual and in thereligious conduct of man. Such behaviour derives its meaning from its relationship to the holy.
Expecially in children, most of them send and receive non-verbal signals all the time. The signal may indicate what they are truly feeling. For example, the idea of mirroring body language to put child at ease is commonly used in interviews. It sets the children being in interviewed at ease. Mirroring or reflecting the body language of someone else indicates tat they are understood. Body language signals may have a goal other than communications.
Body language is an important part of communication, which can constitute 50% are more of what children are communicating. Some researchers put the level of non-verbal communication as high as 80% of all communication. More reasonably it could be at around 60-65%. that’s axactly what Mehrabian discovered in this communication study, he found that only 7% of communications comes from spoken words, 38% is from the tone of the voice, and 55% comes from body language (see, Mehrabian’s Communication Study : 7% words, 38% tone, 55% Body language). Expecially for the teacher who can understand what elementary school-age children want.
If you wish to communicate well with elementary school-age childrent, than it make sense to understand how you can (and can not) use your body language to say what you mean. Here’s details of the contributions of each paret of the body :
1. Head : face, cheek, chin, mouth, lips, teeth, tongue, eyes, eyebrows,
Forehead, hair
2. Arm : elbow, hand, finger
3. Torso : neck, shoulder, chat, back, belly.
4. legs : thigh, knee, foot.
Watch the children and learn to read their body language,but beware of falling into the traps of reading individual gestur because can make the mistake in reaching intention which we wantes . For example, you can tell little from looking at a photograph (you can gues,but you will need more data to be sure).
People always seem to enjoy the expressive and wonderfull thing kids say. Expert say that as much as 65-93% of what we communicate comec from our body language, facial expression and gestures (Birdwishtell, Knapp 1972, and Mehrabian, 1971).And that is also true of these commands and stories from and about children.
The purpose is to help us to a closer touch with any children in our life by carefully observing all of the body language, facial expression, tone of voice and gestures of our little ones. The beauty of this focus is that is also serves to make a elementary school-age children feel more listened to, appreciated and loved. Because it is very important to teacher to teach the student, we want to study about elementary school-age in the kinesic communication for learning English language.