ABSTRACT
The objectives of this study were to examine the kinds of teachers’ nonverbal
communicationmostly used in EFL classroom and the students’ perceptions towards
the male and female teacher’s nonverbal communication in EFL classroom. The
research was conducted through descriptive qualitative method involving classroom
observation and interview. The respondents comprised of two teachers, a male and a
female English teacher and 18 students from three different classes. The result of data
analysis showed that there were seven kinds of nonverbal communication used by the
teachers in teaching English namelygesture, posture, eye contact, facial expression,
touch, voice, and distance. Findings also show that the teachers’ nonverbal
communication gave impact on the students’ learning process, such as teacher’s
gesture can help the students have better understanding, eye contact with the student
means that teacher is paying attention to the students, teacher showed smiling
expression while teaching will make students feel happy. While the teacher with an
angry expression will make the students feel depressed and uncomfortable, the
students feel appreciated if they have touched by the teacher. , some students agree
that teachers can help students catch the message better if the teacher has a loud
voice. Although teacher raised her/his voice to admonish the students may make them
irked and do not attend the class.In implementing touch and distance in teaching EFL,
both teachers have restriction because the female students felt bit uncomfortable with
male teachers while the male students felt bit uncomfortable with female teachers.
Besides, male and female teachers have different ways of using nonverbal
communication. Male teacher more actively appreciate the students by giving his
thumbs up. Sitting when explaining the lesson was rarely doing by male teacher,
whereas female teacher always doing it. On the other hand, female teacher showed
her attention when the students were talking by tilting her head
