Contact:much of what we have said is about the issue of contact.How can teachets make contact with students?How close should that contact be?
In order to manage a class successfully, the teacher has to be aware of what students are doing and,where possible,how they are felling.This means watching and listening just ad carefully ad teaching.It means being able to move around the class,getting the level of proximity right.It means making eye contact wuth students (provided that this is not culturally inappropriate ), listening to what they have said and responding appropriately.
It is almost impossible to help students to learn a language in a classroom setting without making contact with them.The exact nature of this contact will vary from teachet to teacher and from class to class.
The teacher's physical approach and personality in the class is one aspect of class management to consider.Another is one of the teacher's chief tools:the voice