CASUGA, MA. KHRYZZIE MAE P.

SARANDI, KRISTTINA
BATERNA, EMMANUEL

USE OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSROOM AS A WAY OF

ENHANCING CLASSROOM TEACHING; A CASE STUDY OF SOLUSI HIGH SCHOOL,
ZIMBABWE

The study investigated the teacher’s use of non-verbal communication in the classroom and how

it enhance teacher effectiveness as an instructor and as a disciplinarian. Teaching is an old

profession which is heavily based on social competence and prospective teachers have been

trained for decades in the field so that they can effectively teach pupils in the classroom. Audio

visual tape recorders, checklist and interview schedules were used. Okon (2011) propounds that

the videotaped material captures on unbiased evidence of teacher behavior and teaching

situation. The researcher obtained written research permission from following authorities before

the research could be embarked on; Solusi university faculty of education and Solusi high

school headmaster. All academic ZJC teachers and Solusi High School, Matabeland South in

Zimbabwe were used for this study. It was established that teachers used quite a number of

nonverbal cues un the classroom with positive impact on pupils learning and discipline.

Chronemics (The use of time) was respected by teachers in accordance to suggestion by Payne

(2001) that the teachers perceive yime, structure it and react to it helps set the stage for

classroom communication.
CASUGA, MA. KHRYZZIE MAE P.
SARANDI, KRISTTINA
BATERNA, EMMANUEL