The Role of Gesture in Bilingual Education
Does Gesture Enhance Learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20505273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Breckinridge Church (0000-0002-5657-3428), Saba Ayman‐Nolley, Saba Ayman-Nolley, Shahrzad Mahootian |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 303-319 |
| Publication date | 2004-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-0050 • E-ISSN: 1747-7522 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13670050408667815 |
| OpenAlex | W2118553139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 2 |
Studies investigating the role gesture plays in communication claim gesture has a minimal role, while others claim that gesture carries a large communicative load. In these studies, however, the role of gesture has been assessed in a context where speech is understood and could easily carry the entire communicative burden. We examine the role of gesture when speech is inaccessible to the listener. We investigated a population of children who, by their circumstances, are exposed to a language that is not accessible to them: Spanish-speaking students in an English-speaking school. Fifty-one first grade English-speaking students and Spanish-speaking students were tested. Half of the English-speaking and half of Spanish-speaking students viewed a 'speech only' math instructional tape (i.e.instruction was not accompanied by gesture), while the other half of the English-speaking and Spanishspeaking students viewed a 'speech and gesture' instructional tape. We found that learning increased two-fold for all students when gesture accompanied speech instruction, increasing Spanish-speaking learning from 0% to 50%. We speculate that gesture improved learning for Spanish-speaking children because gestural representation is not tied to a particular language. Rather, gesture reflects concepts in the form of universal representations. Implications for the communicative function of gesture are discussed
Gesture · Linguistics · Computer Science · Hand Gesture Recognition Systems · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Psychology · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,82 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |