Supporting "Foreground Gesture" Development in Language Teacher Education: Gesture Use in Lexical Description Games Before and After Embodiment Workshops
Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 1:00 PM–1:30 PM CDT add to calendar
Think 5
Session Type
Paper (25 minutes)
Program Summary
This presentation reports on changes in gesture use by 13 language teacher candidates before and after short workshops on the body as a teaching resource. Results show that after the workshops, teacher candidates had overall increased the use and duration of iconic (representative, "foreground") gestures when spontaneously describing lexical items.