Thinking with your hands: Speech-gesture activity during an L2 awareness-raising task

Language Awareness

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-219

  van Compernolle, Rémi A ^a   Williams, Lawrence ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Foreign language pedagogy; Gesture; Language awareness; Sociocultural theory; Sociolinguistic competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053187219     PISSN: 09658416     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658416.2011.559244     Document Type: Article

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