Making Children Gesture Brings out Implicit Knowledge and Leads to Learning

Autor/inn/en	Broaders, Sara C.; Cook, Susan Wagner; Mitchell, Zachary; Goldin-Meadow, Susan
Titel	Making Children Gesture Brings out Implicit Knowledge and Leads to Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136 (2007) 4, S.539-550 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-3445
Schlagwörter	Learning Readiness; Mathematics Instruction; Cognitive Processes; Nonverbal Communication; Problem Solving; Children; Knowledge Level + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernbereitschaft; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Problemlösen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Wissensbasis
Abstract	Speakers routinely gesture with their hands when they talk, and those gestures often convey information not found anywhere in their speech. This information is typically not consciously accessible, yet it provides an early sign that the speaker is ready to learn a particular task (S. Goldin-Meadow, 2003). In this sense, the unwitting gestures that speakers produce reveal their implicit knowledge. But what if a learner was forced to gesture? Would those elicited gestures also reveal implicit knowledge and, in so doing, enhance learning? To address these questions, the authors told children to gesture while explaining their solutions to novel math problems and examined the effect of this manipulation on the expression of implicit knowledge in gesture and on learning. The authors found that, when told to gesture, children who were unable to solve the math problems often added new and correct problem-solving strategies, expressed only in gesture, to their repertoires. The authors also found that when these children were given instruction on the math problems later, they were more likely to succeed on the problems than children told not to gesture. Telling children to gesture thus encourages them to convey previously unexpressed, implicit ideas, which, in turn, makes them receptive to instruction that leads to learning. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10