The Function of Gesture in Lexically Focused L2 Instructional Conversations

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 397-416

  Smotrova, Tetyana ^a   Lantolf, James P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catchment; Gesture; L2 classroom; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878255471     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2013.12008.x     Document Type: Article

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