The act of teaching is a predominantly verbal. Nevertheless communication during the teaching process equally depends on the paraverbal and nonverbal components, that are meant to reinforce the formative interaction between the teacher, as traditional transmitter, and the student as receiver of...

Beside verbal messages there are also very important non-verbal cues. We trust them more than verbal ones. One of the functions of nonverbal communication is persuasion. Past studies have found that eye contact, dress style, certain vocalic characteristics and some types of touch used by the...