Rövid leírás:

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching.

Hosszú leírás:

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching. Expert contributors from around the world outline the theoretical basis for each topic and offer clear descriptions of data collection and analysis methods for classroom, naturalistic, quasi-experimental, and experimental settings. The book further offers a rich array of ancillary pedagogical material and points out areas ripe for future study. This will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and researchers of applied linguistics, communications, education, and psychology interested in gesture studies and multimodality in L2 learning and teaching.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1 Overview of Multimodality and Gesture in Second Language Acquisition

Kimberly (Buescher) Urbanski and Gale Stam

2 Analyzing Nonverbal Corrective Feedback

Sol?ne Inceoglu and Shawn Loewen

3 Researching the Effect of Gestures on the Learning and Retention of Vocabulary in a Naturalistic Setting

Tasha Lewis and Matthew Kirkhart

4 Analyzing Metagestuality

Brahim Azaoui

5 How to Study Pedagogical Gesture in Naturalistic Settings

Marion Tellier and Keli Yerian

6 Investigating Gesture in Non-naturalistic, Scripted Contexts

Amanda Brown

7 How to Conduct Experimental Research Illuminating Gesture?s Role in L2 Acquisition

Laura M. Morett

8 How to Investigate L2 Thinking for Speaking

Gale Stam

9 Multimodal Conversation Analysis as a Method for Studying Second Language Use and Learning in Naturally Occurring Interaction

Niina Lilja

10 Concluding Remarks

Gale Stam and Kimberly (Buescher) Urbanski