Gestures and second language acquisition
Författare
Redaktör
- Peter Robinson
- Nick Ellis
Summary, in English
Gestures, the symbolic movements speakers perform while they speak, are systematically related to speech and language at multiple levels, and reflect cognitive and linguistic activities in non-trivial ways. This chapter presents an overview of what gestures can tell us about the processes of second language acquisition. It focuses on two key aspects, (a) gestures and the developing language system and (b) gestures and learning, and discusses some implications of an expanded view of language acquisition that takes gestures into account.
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
276-305
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Handbook of cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Routledge
Ämne
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Nyckelord
- bilingualism
- gesture
- second language acquisition
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-0-8058-5352-0