LECTURER’S FACIAL EXPRESSION IN EFL CLASSROOM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COKROAMINOTO PALOPO

The aim of this study was to find out type of facial expression commonly transpire in the EFL speaking class, to find out students’ perception on lecturer’s facial expression in EFL speaking class and also to find out the impact of lecturer facial expression on students speaking performance. There were two teachers became the subject of this study which were taken by means of purposive sampling. The data were obtained by means of classroom observation, semi-structured interview, and students’ speaking achievement. Classroom observation was conducted in order to get lecturer facial expression frequently appear in the teaching proccess. Moreover, semi-structured interview was used to get students perception toward their lecturer’s facial expression and students English score were collected to get the impact of that facial expression towards the students’ English achievement. Based on the observation result that they types of teacher facial expression commonly transpired were facial expression of happy and facial expression of surprise. These two types became lecturer’s way in attracting students attention. Moreover, another finding was that the students perception that consists of two; positive and negative perception in which majority students stated that their teacher’s expression of happy indirectly affect their spirit and self-confidence. However, when lecturer displayed certain face of expression like as angry, it will influence students emotional in speaking. Furthermore, mjority students displayed good achievement in their speaking performance which were categorized into good speaking performance (GSP). Keywords: nonverbal communication, facial expression, English lecturer, speaking, students’ perceptio