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Embodied Vocabulary Explanation in ESL Group Interaction: A Preliminary Account
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Embodied Vocabulary Explanation in ESL Group Interaction: A Preliminary Account ...
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Abstract:
In recent decades, the study of language learners’ embodied behavior amongst themselves has gained much currency. Broadly speaking, a wealth of studies on learner gestures connect gestures with second language acquisition, and have shown that gestures play a role in facilitating communication, acquisition, and retention (Gullberg, 1998, 2011, 2014; McCafferty, 2004; McCafferty & Gullberg, 2008; Stam & McCafferty, 2008). Another line of research examines learner gestures through the lens of sociocultural theory, and has found that learners use gestures to rehearse new knowledge and to self-regulate (Lee, 2008; McCafferty, 1998; Negueruela & Lantolf, 2008; Platt & Brooks, 2008). These studies, however, adopted experimental designs as a research method, and therefore, how learners actually use gestures when interacting with one another in situ remains largely a “black box.” To this end, a growing number of research on learner gesture now adopts a conversation analytic perspective, which focuses ...
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Applied linguistics; English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers; Gesture; Second language acquisition
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URL: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8FT9XZG https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8ft9xzg
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