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What Do Learners Make of Teachers' Gestures in the Language Classroom?
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Sime, Daniela – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This study explores the meanings that learners of English as a foreign language give to teachers' gestures. It is a qualitative, descriptive study of the perceived functions that gestures perform in the EFL classroom, viewed mainly from the language learners' perspective. The data for the study was collected through interviews with twenty-two…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interviews, Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning