Gestures in conversation - the significance of gestures and utterances when children and preschool teachers create stories using the computer

Computers and Education

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 335-361

  Klerfelt, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elementary education; Improving classroom teaching; Interactive learning environments; Multimedia; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33751222233     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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