Abstract:
nonverbally. We could interpret a message nonverbally
through face expression, eye contact and body movement.
The design of the study is qualitative descriptive. Method collecting
data in this research is by observing some videos recording contain students of
VIE who is conducting conversation with native speaker. The aim of this
research is to find the nonverbal communication used by the student of VI E
of English department of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo. The
researcher uses an observation sheet, the observation sheet contain list of
characteristics which is going to be observed. The researcher takes a note
based on nonverbal codes then categorizing the nonverbal found in
observation sheet. Later the researcher describes the nonverbal used by the
students in written thesis.
After conducting an analysis, the researcher found those there
seventh types of nonverbal. The types of nonverbal are: kinesics, gesture,
posture, vocalic/sound, facial expression, eye contact. Based on the data
collected and the percentage computed there are 10% for kinesics, 23 % for
gesture, 22% for posture and facial expression, 2% for vocalic or sound, 21%
for eye contact and 0% for touch. Based on the data, it can be concluded that
the most dominant types of nonverbal used by the student of VIE of English
department of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo is Gesture.
