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Thinking with Your Hands: Speech-Gesture Activity during an L2 Awareness-Raising Task
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Language Awareness, 2011
This article reports on a study of second language (L2) French learners' self-generated use of gesture to think through and resolve a metalinguistic awareness-raising task during small-group work with an expert mediator. Although the use of gesture in L2 communication and pedagogy has recently received increasing attention, little research has…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Metalinguistics, French, Nonverbal Communication