The role of pictures and gestures as nonverbal aids in preschoolers' word learning in a novel language

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-117

  Rowe, Meredith L ^a   Silverman, Rebecca D ^a   Mullan, Bridget E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Nonverbal aids; Pictures; Vocabulary; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872367902     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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