ABSTRACT
Teacher-student interaction is an exchange process in which the parties play complementary roles vis-à-vis each other. Teachers’ behaviors and responses are the students’ stimuli, and students’ behaviors (responses) are their teachers’ stimuli. The same complementary process is relevant for NV exchanges between teachers and students, with decoding and encoding of students and teachers complementing each other. In the classroom, teachers are the decoders of students’ encoded NV expressions, and the teachers are encoders who express themselves in NV behavior that is decoded by their students.
