According to Anderson (1986) teachers are in control and have the power position in the classroom, teachers decide who does the talking for how long and how often. The technique teachers use to indicate that it’s a student’s turn to talk, is when the teacher lowers their voice, or changes their pitch and turns the sentence into a question, or by dropping their gesture. To make conversation flow teachers have the power to shorten a student’s response and make the speaking floor move in a quick pace by nodding their head. Teachers also use nonverbal cues to indicate to students that it is not time to talk, an example is when a student always wants to answer the question and it is only fair for other students to do so also. Not to ignore the student the teacher would make eye contact but then glace around the room waiting for another student to respond to the question (Simons, cooper, 2011).
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Nonverbal communication is more effective than verbal communication when it comes to behaviour in controlling the classroom because not many like to be verbally reprimanded and it lessens the tension of me against you, therefore students cannot retaliation and answer back. In order to get the students to stop talking in class and to pay attention nonverbal cues suggest that increase eye contact would help and also to move in the student’s direction and possibly stand next to them (Simons, cooper, 2011).