Listening with Your Eyes: The Importance of Speech- Related Gestures in the Language Llassroom  

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Harris, Tony

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 36 no. 2 (2003), page 180-187.
Fulltext: 36_02_Tony Harris.pdf (870.46KB)

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This article presents the argument that nonverbal communication (NVC) forms an important part of everyday speech transmission and therefore should occupy a more central position in second and foreign language (L2) teaching than it currently does. The role played by NVC in a three-turn conversational exchange is examined and the literature supporting the notion that speechrelated gestures (i.e., illustrators) have a definite message-cawying~nctionis reviewed. Two illustrative gestures from a television script excerpt are analyzed; it is demonstrated that such gestures may assist in the decoding of speech at the “while-listening” stage ofL2 listening comprehension.

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