高职英语教学过程是一个师生互动的交际行为过程。在这个过程中,言语行为和非言语行为都起着举足轻重的作用。在长期以讲授法为主要方法的教学过程,言语行为作为实现信息传递的主要手段受到了人们的高度重视,而对非言语行为的关注度显得颇为不足。通过了解非言语行为的主要内涵,本文对非言语行为在教学过程中重要意义进行了探析,同时,也对运用非言语行为的原则进行了探讨。 Vocational English teaching process is a teacher-student interaction of communicative behavior process. In this process, both verbal and non-verbal acts play a decisive role. In the teaching process whose main method is to teach law for a long time, speech acts are regarded as the main means to realize information transmission, and people pay more attention to it. However, the concern about nonverbal behavior is quite insufficient. Through understanding the main connotation of non-verbal behavior, this paper analyzes the importance of non-verbal behavior in the teaching process, and also discusses the principle of using non-verbal behavior.