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Handling Discourse: Gestures, Reference Tracking, and Communication Strategies in Early L2
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Gullberg, Marianne – Language Learning, 2006
The production of cohesive discourse, especially maintained reference, poses problems for early second language L2 speakers. This paper considers a communicative account of overexplicit L2 discourse by focusing on the interdependence between spoken and gestural cohesion, the latter being expressed by anchoring of referents in gesture space.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Indo European Languages, French, Second Language Learning