Body Language as a Communicative Aid amongst Language Impaired Students: Managing Disabilities

Nnenna Gertrude Ezeh, Ojel Clara Anidi and Basil Okwudili Nwokolo

English Language Teaching, 2021, vol. 14, issue 6, 125

Abstract: Language impairment is a condition of impaired ability in expressing ideas, information, needs and in understanding what others say. In the teaching and learning of English as a second language, this disability poses a lot of difficulties for impaired students as well as the teacher in the pedagogic process. Pathologies and other speech/language interventions have aided such students in coping with language learning; however, this study explores another dimension of aiding impaired students in an ESL situation- the use of body language. The study adopts a quantitative methodology in assessing the role of body language as a learning tool amongst language/speech impaired students. It was discovered that body language aids students to manage speech disabilities and to achieve effective communication; this helps in making the teaching and learning situation less cumbersome.

Date: 2021
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