In multimedia classroom teaching context, teacher’s proper nonverbal communication plays a crucial role in the successful transmission of information and interaction between teachers and students. This paper, based on Multimodal Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistic, adopts case study analysis of the teachers’ non-verbal behaviours and visual modes in PPT courseware, aiming to explore how various modes cooperate to facilitate teacher-students interaction and realize three metafunctions in class. The author expects this study will be of help in elevating the teacher’s awareness of non-verbal behaviours in teaching to optimize the teaching and learning effect in class.
Keywords: Actional modes, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Teachers’ non-verbal behaviours, Visual modes
