The integration of gestures and pictures into pedagogy has demonstrated potential for
improving adults' learning of foreign language (L2) vocabulary. However, the relative …

This study uses conversation analysis (CA) to investigate the coupling of specific linguistic
items with specific gestures in second language (L2) learning over time. In particular, we are …

Three experimental designs were implemented in day nurseries in order to elicit imperative,
declarative expressive, and declarative informative pointing gestures (Tomasello, Carpenter …

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

As children's language abilities develop, so may their use of co-speech gesture. We tested
this hypothesis by studying oral narratives produced by French children and adults. One …

ABSTRACT Lilja, Niina Other initiated repair sequences in Finnish second language
interactions Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2010, 336 p.(Jyväskylä Studies in …

Perhaps the greatest shift in thinking in the last two decades in Child Language has been to
view the young child as increasingly active in her ability to communicate well before she has …

This study investigates the perception and production of a specific type of metaphoric
gesture that mimics melody in speech, also called pitch gesture, in the learning of L2 …

From the perspective that language and language usage consist of both speech and
gesture, over the past 30 years, a number of studies have examined gesture's role in second …

In what ways do native language (NL) speakers and foreign language (FL) learners differ in
understanding the same messages delivered with or without gestures? To answer this …