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On Nurturing Students’ Nonverbal Communication Awarenessand its Pedagogical Implications 　　1. Introduction 　　Language is a way for communication， but people can use the other way which is called nonverbal communication to express their thoughts feelings and attitudes. This kind of communication is that people do not use language to communicate with others （Hu Wenzhong， 1999）. In the middle of 1960’s， Rivers （1946）， an American applied linguist， brought the achievement in nonverbal communication into foreign language teaching （Wang Jun and Duan Chunyun， 1999）. With which the foreign language teachers realize that there was a close relationship between the research of nonverbal communication and foreign language teaching. And as a teacher， he or she should nurture and train the students’ understanding of nonverbal communication （Guo Zhongcai， 2001）. 　　2. Nonverbal communication 　　From 1960’s， researchers began to study the nonverbal communication. The pioneer of nonverbal communication is Charlie Chaplin， who sent the nonverbal messages successfully in silent screen to audiences （Wang Fuxiang， 1988）. And what is nonverbal communication and what the functions about it？ 　　People have two ways to communicate： verbal communication and nonverbal communication. When people communicate with each other， they use nonverbal communication unconsciously. The researchers gave the similar definitions about it. Lin Dajin pointed out the nonverbal communication is the communicational behaviors that a man （or men） does （or do） not use language but paralanguage to send the messages to the person （or several persons）. In a word， nonverbal communication is the way to converse with each other without using language. 　　We use substitution in nonverbal communication when we perform some action instead of speaking. When a friend tells your shortage in the public， you may give him or her on angry stare. Your friend can understand your meaning. 　　The necessity for learners of Englis