When people are asked to perform actions, they remember those actions better than if they
are asked to talk about the same actions. But when people talk, they often gesture with their …

The aim of this review is to consider how current vocabulary training methods could be
optimized by considering recent scientific insights in how the brain represents conceptual …

This paper describes two experiments on the role of audiovisual prosody for signalling and
detecting meta-cognitive information in question answering. The first study consists of an …

When we speak, we regularly gesture as an integral part of communicating. For example, my
colleague just explained how her husband backed into another car this morning (she …

Gestures, ie the symbolic movements that speakers perform while they speak, form a closely
interconnected system with speech, where gestures serve both addressee-directed …

The purpose of the current paper is to outline how gestures can contribute to the study of
some key issues in language development. Specifically, we (1) briefly summarise what is …

The title of this special issue, Gesture and SLA: Toward an Integrated Approach, stems in
large part from the idea known as integrationism, principally set forth by Harris (2003, 2005) …

This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language
communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations …

To date, within the context of second language (L2) word learning, nonspontaneous
representational gesture viewing's impact on memory and spontaneous gesture production's …

Classical studies on enactment have highlighted the beneficial effects of gestures performed
in the encoding phase on memory for words and sentences, for both adults and children. In …