Authors : Engin Karada and Canan cetin
Abstract: The teaching staff of the universities, who constantly communicate and interact with students, play a part in planning and application of the educational activities in universities. The qualified lecturers will cause the students to gain ideal behavior and to be educated more effectively. The formation of a good teaching and learning process depends on the lecturers’ competent and knowledge accumulation. Lecturer training programs performed in accordance with scientific criteria are very important because they help them become well-qualified and well-informed. Facts, which must be learnt by a member of the information society, can be listed as: -competing, -obtaining the knowledge, competence and attitude which will provide improvement. The students gain these necessary attitudes by realizing appropriate and perpetual changes in way of behaving such as execution, creativity and communication. This study has been performed for the first time in the world in order to determine how much university lecturers, who play a part in an individual’s future and her or his social life, use the body language during teaching process.
Engin Karada and Canan cetin , 2008. An Evaluation of the University Staff’s Skill of Using Body Language in the Process of Teaching. The Social Sciences, 3: 392-396.