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Direct linkCook, Susan Wagner; Mitchell, Zachary; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Cognition, 2008
The gestures children spontaneously produce when explaining a task predict whether they will subsequently learn that task. Why? Gesture might simply reflect a child's readiness to learn a particular task. Alternatively, gesture might itself play a role in learning the task. To investigate these alternatives, we experimentally manipulated…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Readiness, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction
