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Belhiah, Hassan – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article examines the coordination of speech and gesture in teachers' definition talk, that is, vocabulary explanations addressed to language learners. By analyzing one ESL teacher's spoken definitions, the study demonstrates in the details of the unfolding talk how a teacher crafts and choreographs his definitions moment by moment, while…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Nonverbal Communication, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)