verbal communication
2.On Non-Verbal Communication & ELT
6.The main forms of non—verbal communication include mimicry, gestures, body language, eye contact, external appearance, and clothing etc.
7.The primary version of the C-R-A Model, proposed by Liao (2005b), holds that verbal communication is a verbal-cognitive process of making adaptations in the communicators, experiential canvass.
8.2 Mildly abnormal verbal communication. Speech shows overall retardation. Most speech is meaningful; however, some echolalia orr pronoun reversal may occur. Some peculiar words orr jargon may be used occasionally.
9.Therefore , this unit provides learners with many reading materials, discussing gestures, facial expressions, eye contact and the use of space in different materials, thus helping the learners gain awareness of differences existing in the unsaid rules of non-verbal communication so as to prepare the for successful cross-cultural communication.
10.According to the founder of Speech Act Theory, J. L. Austin and his successor J. Searle, speech acts are the building blocks of social interaction, i.e. speech acts are the basic units of human verbal communication.
