The classroom presentation of authentic nonverbal behavior as a legitimate and useful activity in the teaching of the foreign culture is explored in this report. The author focuses on the need for cross-cultural inventories for each of the commonly taught languages in American schools and colleges. Means by which currently-used language texts can be correlated with nonverbal, high frequency gestures are explored. A review of the development of kinesics as a branch of linguistics concentrates on contributions of early pioneers in the field. (RL)