Gesture

Contributors Preface I: INTRODUCTION TO GESTURE AND ITS L2 APPLICATIONS 1. Gesture Studies and Second Language Acquisition: A Review Gale Stam and Steven G. McCafferty 2. Nonverbal Communication and Second Language Classrooms: A Review Carla Chamberlin Quinlisk II: GESTURE AND MEANING MAKING IN THE L2 3. Material Foundations for Second Language Acquisition: Gesture, Metaphor, and Internalization Steven G. McCafferty 4. Embodiment as Self-Regulation in L2 Task Performance Elizabeth Platt and Frank B. Brooks 5. The Dialectics of Gesture in the Construction of Meaning in Second Language Oral Narratives Eduardo Negueruela and James P. Lantolf III: GESTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN THE L2 6. Gesturally Enhanced Repeats in The Repair Turn: Communication Strategy Or Cognitive Language-Learning Tool? David Olsher 7. Does Gesture Aid Discourse Comprehension in the L2? Tsuyoshi Kida 8. Language Learner and Native Speaker Perceptions of Japanese Refusal Gestures Portrayed in Video Nicholas O. Jungheim IV: GESTURE AND LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE IN THE L2 9. A Helping Hand? Gestures, L2 Learners, and Grammar Marianne Gullberg 10. Linguistic and Gestural Introduction of Ground Reference in L1 and L2 Narrative Keiko Yoshioka 11. What Gestures Reveal About Second Language Acquisition Gale Stam V: GESTURE AND THE L2 CLASSROOM 12. Because Of Her Gesture, It's Very Easy To Understand - Learners' Perceptions of Teachers' Gestures in the Foreign Language Class Daniela Sime 13. Gesture and the Negotiation of Meaning in a Second Language Classroom Martine Faraco and Tsuyoshi Kida 14. Expository Discourse in a Second Language Classroom: How Learners Use Gesture Alexis Tabensky