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S140 | ReN: Latest research on gestures and second language acquisition: Production, perception, and classroom

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This symposium focuses on the perception and production of L2 and bilingual gestures and use of gestures in a language classroom. 

Marianne Gullberg discusses gestures in SLA. Søren Eskildsen and Johannes Wagner present how the process of learning specific L2 items moves along a developmental path of embodied appropriation-for-use. Then, Renia Lopez identifies a relationship between production of gestures and discourse functions. Following this, Alessandro Rosborough reports how gestures play a discursive role in empowering and disempowering students' language use.

Next, Spencer Kelly Yukari Hirata, Kevin Lian and Kianna Billot-Vasquez show how seeing culturally familiar gestures affects the viewers' perceived linguistic and cultural competence. After this, Kimberly Buescher Urbanski demonstrates how L2 students' gestures show teachers what they understand. Then, Elena Nicoladis and Paula Marentette compare bilingual and monolingual children's gestures, and Masaaki Kamiya and Amanda Brown discuss the limited effects of visual cues on L2 comprehension. 

A general discussion by Marianne Gullberg and Gale Stam concludes the symposium.

Virtual Session Symposium
August 18, 2021 08:30 AM - August 18, 2022 12:00 Noon(Europe/Amsterdam)
Venue : Room 1
20210818T0830 20210818T1200 Europe/Amsterdam S140 | ReN: Latest research on gestures and second language acquisition: Production, perception, and classroom

This symposium focuses on the perception and production of L2 and bilingual gestures and use of gestures in a language classroom. 

Marianne Gullberg discusses gestures in SLA. Søren Eskildsen and Johannes Wagner present how the process of learning specific L2 items moves along a developmental path of embodied appropriation-for-use. Then, Renia Lopez identifies a relationship between production of gestures and discourse functions. Following this, Alessandro Rosborough reports how gestures play a discursive role in empowering and disempowering students' language use.

Next, Spencer Kelly Yukari Hirata, Kevin Lian and Kianna Billot-Vasquez show how seeing culturally familiar gestures affects the viewers' perceived linguistic and cultural competence. After this, Kimberly Buescher Urbanski demonstrates how L2 students' gestures show teachers what they understand. Then, Elena Nicoladis and Paula Marentette compare bilingual and monolingual children's gestures, and Masaaki Kamiya and Amanda Brown discuss the limited effects of visual cues on L2 comprehension. 

A general discussion by Marianne Gullberg and Gale Stam concludes the symposium.

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An introduction to the Latest research on gesture and second language acquisition: Production, perception, and classroom

FeaturedAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/18 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/18 10:00:00 UTC
Gestures are gaining ground in SLA/multilingualism research. Setting the stage for this symposium, I provide some background on gestures, highlighting links between gestures, speech, language, and culture. I then briefly introduce a few areas where the form and function of gestures have hitherto been studied in L2/multilingual production and comprehension.
Presenters Marianne Gullberg
Lund University
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Do bilingual children gesture more because of word-finding difficulties?

FocusedAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/18 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/18 10:00:00 UTC
We tested whether bilingual children gesture more than monolinguals because of greater word-finding difficulties. We found no differences on gesture frequency during word-finding difficulty. However, there were no differences on the number of word-finding difficulties or gestures. These results raise questions about when bilinguals and monolinguals differ in gesture use.
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EN
 Elena Nicoladis
University Of Alberta
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Multimodality and Contingency Teaching: Developing Second Language Literacy

FocusedAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/18 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/18 10:00:00 UTC
This study addresses the interrelationship of multimodalities and contingent interactions during classroom literacy activities, for elementary-aged second language learners. Using McNeill’s (1992) co-speech gesture and gesture coding, multimodalities such as prosodics, facial expressions, drawings, objects, and dramaturgical engagements were analyzed for their ability to provide extended support for the students.
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AR
 Alessandro Rosborough
Brigham Young University
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Gesturing discourse markers in native speakers and learners of Spanish

StandardAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/18 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/18 10:00:00 UTC
This talk presents results from a study analyzing gestures co-occurring with the discourse marker “entonces” (then) in a corpus of 24 narrations from native and non-native speakers of Spanish. “Entonces” often indicates a temporal sequential nexus. However, it has a number of other pragmatic functions including cognitive, inferential and metadiscursive.
Presenters Renia Lopez-Ozieblo
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Embodied L2 interactional repertoires and their development

StandardAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/18 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/18 10:00:00 UTC
Building on our previous work on gesture-talk ensembles (e.g., Eskildsen & Wagner, 2015), we expand the analyses of some of the same pieces of data to include not only such ensembles, but a range of gestural and materially coupled bodily actions. This reveals highly complex processes of instructing, explaining, repairing and achieveing intersubjectivity in which we find increased environmental richness in the participants' embodied conduct as the repair work unfolds. We will present analyses of our classroom data and discuss how our approach contributes to the field's understanding of the complexities of embodied L2 interaction in the material ecology. 
Presenters
SE
 Søren Wind Eskildsen
University Of Southern Denmark Co-authors
JW
 Johannes Wagner
University Of Southern Denmark
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The Role of Gesture in Ambiguity: Negation and Quantification in L2 English Comprehension

StandardAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/18 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/18 10:00:00 UTC
Gestures can facilitate comprehension and specific gestural forms/timings are associated with negation, including the ambiguities arising from negation+quantification in English. Analyses of L1/L2 English comprehension of ambiguous sentences among 66 L2 learners and 10 NS of English revealed moderately accurate interpretation, no proficiency effects, and no/limited effects of inclusion of gesture in sentence presentation.
Presenters
AB
 Amanda Brown
Syracuse University Co-authors
MK
 Masaaki Kamiya
Hamilton College
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Use of students’ gesture-speech interface to better attune mediation for L2 development

StandardAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/18 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/18 10:00:00 UTC
This talk outlines how students’ gesture-speech interface in second language classrooms/studies can provide teachers/researchers with a more comprehensive understanding of what students do and do not understand in the classroom. Gaining a full sense of students’ understanding helps teachers/researchers to more highly attune the mediation that they provide to learners.
Presenters Kimberly Buescher Urbanski
Assistant Professor, University Of Massachusetts - Boston
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Accentuating the positive: Can co-speech hand gestures improve judgments of foreign language accents?

StandardAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/18 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/18 10:00:00 UTC
Listeners make negative evaluations of non-native accents. We show that phonetic perception and social evaluations improve when L2 speakers use co-speech hand gestures (emblems), even if non-native accents themselves stay the same. This suggests that in cross-cultural communication, more attention should be paid to what L2 speakers do with their hands.
Presenters Spencer Kelly
Colgate University Co-authors
ZL
 Zhongwen Lian
Colgate University
KB
 Kiana Billot-Vasquez
Colgate University Yukari Hirata
Colgate University
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Prof. Marianne Gullberg
Lund University
Elena Nicoladis
University of Alberta
Alessandro Rosborough
Brigham Young University
Renia Lopez-Ozieblo
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Søren Wind Eskildsen
University of Southern Denmark
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National Louis University
Prof. Marianne Gullberg
Prof. Marianne Gullberg
Lund University
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