Steven G McCafferty / Gale A Stam (eds.)

Gesture

Second Language Acquistion and Classroom Research
Herausgeber: McCafferty, Steven G; Stam, Gale

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates the connection between language and gesture, and why it is critical for research on second language acquisition to take into account the full spectrum of communicative phenomena. This volume includes chapters that focus on a variety of second-language contexts, including adult classroom and naturalistic learners.

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This book demonstrates the vital connection between language and gesture, and why it is critical for research on second language acquisition to take into account the full spectrum of communicative phenomena.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780805860535
• ISBN-10: 0805860533
• Artikelnr.: 25009400

Autorenporträt

McCafferty, Steven G.; Stam, Gale

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
Preface
I: INTRODUCTION TO GESTURE AND ITS L2 APPLICATIONS
1. Gesture Studies and Second Language Acquisition: A Review
Gale Stam and Steven G. McCafferty
2. Nonverbal Communication and Second Language Classrooms: A Review
Carla Chamberlin Quinlisk
II: GESTURE AND MEANING MAKING IN THE L2
3. Material Foundations for Second Language Acquisition: Gesture, Metaphor,
and Internalization
Steven G. McCafferty
4. Embodiment as Self-Regulation in L2 Task Performance
Elizabeth Platt and Frank B. Brooks
5. The Dialectics of Gesture in the Construction of Meaning in Second
Language Oral Narratives
Eduardo Negueruela and James P. Lantolf
III: GESTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN THE L2
6. Gesturally Enhanced Repeats in The Repair Turn: Communication Strategy
Or Cognitive Language-Learning Tool?
David Olsher
7. Does Gesture Aid Discourse Comprehension in the L2?
Tsuyoshi Kida
8. Language Learner and Native Speaker Perceptions of Japanese Refusal
Gestures Portrayed in Video
Nicholas O. Jungheim
IV: GESTURE AND LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE IN THE L2
9. A Helping Hand? Gestures, L2 Learners, and Grammar
Marianne Gullberg
10. Linguistic and Gestural Introduction of Ground Reference in L1 and L2
Narrative
Keiko Yoshioka
11. What Gestures Reveal About Second Language Acquisition
Gale Stam
V: GESTURE AND THE L2 CLASSROOM
12. "Because Of Her Gesture, It's Very Easy To Understand" - Learners'
Perceptions of Teachers' Gestures in the Foreign Language Class
Daniela Sime
13. Gesture and the Negotiation of Meaning in a Second Language Classroom
Martine Faraco and Tsuyoshi Kida
14. Expository Discourse in a Second Language Classroom: How Learners Use
Gesture
Alexis Tabensky