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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
Presmeg, Norma C. – 1993
Imagery use in high school mathematics classrooms was studied. A visual image was defined as a mental scheme depicting visual or spatial information, but this definition was not spelled out to teachers or students, in order to learn what they meant by the concept. Subjects were 13 high school teachers and 54 of their students interviewed over 3…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Generalization, High School Students