The purpose of this study was to identify students’ nonverbal communication behaviors
in class, to reveal teachers’ experiences on the identified students’ nonverbal communication
behaviors, and to empirically analyze their emotions and feelings when experiencing the
nonverbal behaviors, depending upon their varied background variables. For this purpose,
the study conducted survey research, the subjects of which were current middle and high
school teachers. Statistical analysis was also conducted depending upon the four types of
nonverbal behaviors, including kinesics, paralanguage, proxemics, and artifacts. Major
findings are as follows: First, there were twenty-two nonverbal communication behaviors
including both positive and negative ones identified students act in class and almost all the
teachers experienced these behaviors. Second, teachers overwhelmingly felt joy on the
students’ positive nonverbal behaviors. In contrast, they felt anger, disgust, and surprise on
the students’ negative ones. Finally, the study showed that the degrees of their feeling were
significantly different depending upon their varied background variables. Implications of
these results are that nonverbal communication behaviors should be considered to be an
important factor in order to achieve instructional goal and that the results of the study can
be the foundation for the research on emotion and feeling for an instruction.