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

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  • Nnenna Gertrude Ezeh
  • Ojel Clara Anidi
  • Basil Okwudili Nwokolo

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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.

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  • Nnenna Gertrude Ezeh & Ojel Clara Anidi & Basil Okwudili Nwokolo, 2021. "Body Language as a Communicative Aid amongst Language Impaired Students: Managing Disabilities," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 14(6), pages 125-125, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:14:y:2021:i:6:p:125
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    1. Adrian Furnham & Evgeniya Petrova, 2010. "Body Language in Business," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-0-230-29229-1.
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