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Gestures and second language acquisition

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Author

Editor

  • Peter Robinson
  • Nick Ellis

Summary, in English

Gestures, the symbolic movements speakers perform while they speak, are systematically related to speech and language at multiple levels, and reflect cognitive and linguistic activities in non-trivial ways. This chapter presents an overview of what gestures can tell us about the processes of second language acquisition. It focuses on two key aspects, (a) gestures and the developing language system and (b) gestures and learning, and discusses some implications of an expanded view of language acquisition that takes gestures into account.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

276-305

Publication/Series

Handbook of cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • bilingualism
  • gesture
  • second language acquisition

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-8058-5352-0