Using the Hand to Choreograph Instruction: On the Functional Role of Gesture in Definition Talk

Autor/in	Belhiah, Hassan
Titel	Using the Hand to Choreograph Instruction: On the Functional Role of Gesture in Definition Talk
Quelle	In: Modern Language Journal, 97 (2013) 2, S.417-434 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-7902
DOI	10.1111/j.1540-4781.2013.12012.x
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Nonverbal Communication; Language Teachers; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Role; Vocabulary; Definitions; Discourse Analysis; Connected Discourse; Linguistic Input; Foreign Students; Korean; Native Speakers; College Faculty; Graduate Students; Video Technology; Teacher Student Relationship; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Rollen; Wortschatz; Begriffsbestimmung; Diskursanalyse; Sprachbildung; Koreanisch; Muttersprachler; Fakultät; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	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 attending to the student's linguistic needs. The study draws upon McNeill's (1999/1992) notion of "gesture-speech co-expressiveness," McNeill and Levy's (1993) idea of "gestural cohesion," and Kendon's (2000) notion of "turn contextualization through gesture." The study identifies three major functional roles of gesture: reinforcing the meaning of verbal utterances; disambiguating the meaning of lexical items; and establishing gestural cohesion across turns at talk. Through the fine-grained analysis of five excerpts, this study contributes to our understanding of the interactional and informational aspects of gesture in second language teaching. The article discusses implications for the study of gesture in general, and the role of gesticulations in providing comprehensible input to second language learners in particular. (Contains 9 figures, 3 excerpts, and 10 notes.) (As Provided).
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