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THE TEACHER
Eye Contact

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Overview Necessity of Eye Contact Uses of Eye Contact Tasks

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Overview

Generally, it is quite difficult to talk to someone who does not look at you, and At the same time, it is difficult to talk to someone who looks at you in the eye Eye Contact is essential in passing messages, such as I have something to say, give me the floor, Observe: How, when, and why your teacher makes eye contact with you and your classmates in the classroom?
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Necessity of Eye Contact

Eye contact establishes rapport, A teacher who never looks students in the eye conveys the impression that he/ she lacks confidence and gives the students a sense of insecurity (a fixed glance does not help either), Making eye contact ensures an effective control over a class Eye contact keeps you in touch with the mood of the class and informed about its reactions. Recall: that some will avoid eye contact out of respect Recall; The more direct eye contact you maintain with all those in the class, the more teacher controlled the lesson is.
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Uses of Eye Contact

To ensure that the students have understood what they are supposed to do and know what is going on, To indicate who is to speak when calling on one after the other to repeat a word or sentence. Using names can slow the pace of a practice To encourage contribution whentrying to elicit ideas or specific language from students, To show a student who is talking that you are taking notice,
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Uses of Eye Contact

To hold the attention of the students not being addressed and to encourage them to listen to those doing the talking, To keep in touch with other students in the class or group when you are dealing with an individual , perhaps when correcting, To signal to a pair or a group to start , to stop, or to hurry up To indicate, with an accompanying gestures, that groups are on the right or wrong lines, With a gesture, to indicate that something is incorrect or that the student(s) should try again, To check that everyone is participating To check silently with students whether they have fiished an activity
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Uses of Eye Contact

Avoid eye contact when the activity does not demand teacher-centered control As soon as you establish eye contact or the student(s) establish eye contact with you, you (the teacher) are brought into the activity thus making it into a teacher-control one.

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Tasks

1. A- Stand in from of the class, dictate something to the class. B- Get the views of the group at the end.

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