Teachers’ hand gestures As nonverbal communication In elt classroom at SMP Al-Khairiyah Surabaya

Hand gestures are one of technique commonly used by teachers in delivering speech. This study aims to investigate types of hand gestures as well as the benefit of using them that are used by teacher in teaching and learning process. This research is qualitative descriptive study that examines two teachers from two different eight grade classes. It takes four times observation for each class. From the interview conducted, this study resulted that there are two types of hand gestures generally used and three benefits of the use of them. The types of hand gestures are gesticulation and emblem types. While the benefits of using hand gesture are, teachers can easily clarify their ideas in explaining some difficult vocabularies, it can help students to understand the materials easily, and it reduces nervous toward the students and enjoy the class. This study hoped will be able to provide insight to teachers about the importance of using hand gestures in learning English by considering the benefits.