This book demonstrates the vital connection between language and gesture, and why it is critical for research on second language acquisition to take into account the full spectrum of communicative phenomena.

McCafferty, Steven G.; Stam, Gale

Contributors

Preface

I: INTRODUCTION TO GESTURE AND ITS L2 APPLICATIONS

1. Gesture Studies and Second Language Acquisition: A Review

Gale Stam and Steven G. McCafferty

2. Nonverbal Communication and Second Language Classrooms: A Review

Carla Chamberlin Quinlisk

II: GESTURE AND MEANING MAKING IN THE L2

3. Material Foundations for Second Language Acquisition: Gesture, Metaphor, and Internalization

Steven G. McCafferty

4. Embodiment as Self-Regulation in L2 Task Performance

Elizabeth Platt and Frank B. Brooks

5. The Dialectics of Gesture in the Construction of Meaning in Second Language Oral Narratives

Eduardo Negueruela and James P. Lantolf

III: GESTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN THE L2

6. Gesturally Enhanced Repeats in The Repair Turn: Communication Strategy Or Cognitive Language-Learning Tool?

David Olsher

7. Does Gesture Aid Discourse Comprehension in the L2?

Tsuyoshi Kida

8. Language Learner and Native Speaker Perceptions of Japanese Refusal Gestures Portrayed in Video

Nicholas O. Jungheim

IV: GESTURE AND LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE IN THE L2

9. A Helping Hand? Gestures, L2 Learners, and Grammar

Marianne Gullberg

10. Linguistic and Gestural Introduction of Ground Reference in L1 and L2 Narrative

Keiko Yoshioka

11. What Gestures Reveal About Second Language Acquisition

Gale Stam

V: GESTURE AND THE L2 CLASSROOM

12. "Because Of Her Gesture, It's Very Easy To Understand" - Learners' Perceptions of Teachers' Gestures in the Foreign Language Class

Daniela Sime

13. Gesture and the Negotiation of Meaning in a Second Language Classroom

Martine Faraco and Tsuyoshi Kida

14. Expository Discourse in a Second Language Classroom: How Learners Use Gesture

Alexis Tabensky