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Gregersen, Tammy; Olivares-Cuhat, Gabriela; Storm, John – Modern Language Journal, 2009
This study examines possible connections between second language competency and frequency and type of gesture use (illustrators, compensatory illustrators, adaptors, emblems, regulators, and affect displays). To this end, 75 students enrolled in beginning, intermediate, and advanced college-level Spanish courses were videotaped while conversing in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Adler, Barbara Laughlin – Communication Teacher, 2006
Objective: Students will identify several unique characteristics of verbal vs. visual messages, including the superior ability of language to communicate objective, factual, philosophical content in past, present, and future terms; and the superior ability of visual images to communicate social-emotional meaning and concrete information limited in…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Class Activities, College Instruction, Visual Perception