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Culture-specific Nonverbal Communication and the Teaching of Foreign Language

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This paper investigates the notion of nonverbal communication from a culture-specific perspective and its impact on foreign language pedagogy. It explores the teaching of non-verbals as part of foreign culture as well as the impact of a teacher's culture-specific nonverbal behavior in the foreign language classroom.
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In-Text Citation: (Houssos, 2020)
To Cite this Article Houssos, V. (2020). Culture-specific nonverbal communication and the teaching of foreign language. Multilingual Academic Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 8(1), 220–232.