Communicative behavior is composed of verbal and non-verbal behavior, while the importance of the latter is always neglected. As the microcosm of communicative scenes, the effectiveness of foreign lan-guage classes in the higher education determines whether the professional graduates who meet the standards of social needs can be cultivated or not. However, traditional foreign teaching mode overemphasized the signifi-cance of verbal behaviors, and rarely used non-verbal behavior as a teaching method, which seriously impe-ded the improvement of students ’ comprehensive abilities including intercultural communication ability. Therefore, only by scaling up the nonverbal behavior and mixing the two together can we renovate the foreign language teaching mode and cultivate excellent foreign language talents.%交际行为分为言语行为和非言语行为，后者的重要性往往被人们忽视。高校外语课堂是交际场景的缩影，其交际的有效性决定了能否培养出符合社会需求的外语专业毕业生。传统的外语教学模式过分强调言语行为的作用，很少重视非言语行为的使用，严重阻碍了学生外语综合能力和跨文化交际能力的提升。因此，只有加大非言语交际行为的使用比重，革新外语教学模式，才能培养出优秀的外语人才。
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