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Gestures and second language acquisition

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Author

Editor

  • Cornelia Müller
  • Alan Cienki
  • Ellen Fricke
  • Silva H. Ladewig
  • David McNeill
  • Sedinha Tessendorf

Summary, in English

Abstract in Undetermined
Most people in the world speak more than one language and many learn it as adolescents or adults. The study of second language acquisition (meaning any language learnt after the first language) is concerned with how a new language develops in the presence of an existing one. Since gestures are an integral part of communication, subject to crosslinguistic, socio- and psycholinguistic variation, they become a natural extension of second language (L2), foreign language (FL) and bilingualism studies. Gestures can be examined as a system to be acquired in its own right (the acquisition of gestures), as a window on language development (gestures in acquisition), and as a medium of development (the effect of gestures on acquisition).

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

1868-1875

Publication/Series

Body, language, communication: an international handbook on multimodality in human interaction

Volume

2

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Mouton de Gruyter

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • gestures
  • second language acquisition

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning