非言语特征传递了人们交际活动中的大部分信息 ,是人们日常交际活动中不可缺少的信息载体。非言语特征包括体姿语、目视行为、面部表情、体距处理、伴随语言诸方面。教师的非言语交际对外语教学起着很重要的作用。教师要注意与自身素质有关的非言语特征 ,并且要善于发掘所教语言文化的非言语特征以提高教学效果 Nonverbal characteristics convey most of the information in people’s communicative activities, which is an indispensable information carrier in people’s daily communicative activities. Non-verbal features include body language, visual behavior, facial expressions, body distance treatment, accompanied by various aspects of the language. Teachers’ non-verbal communication plays an important role in foreign language teaching. Teachers should pay attention to non-verbal features related to their own qualities, and should be good at exploring the nonverbal features of the language and culture they teach to improve teaching effectiveness