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ERIC Number: EJ678175
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
From Children's Hands to Adults' Ears: Gesture's Role in the Learning Process.
Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Singer, Melissa A.
Developmental Psychology, v39 n3 p509-20 May 2003
Asked eight adults to instruct third- and fourth-graders individually in a math problem. Found that the adults offered more variable instruction to children who produced gesture-speech mismatches than to children with no mismatches--more types of instructional strategies and more instructions that contained two different strategies, one in speech and the other in gesture. Concluded that gesture may play a role in eliciting input that could shape children's learning. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Body Language, Children, Interpersonal Communication, Learning Processes, Problem Solving, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Gestural Representation; Hand Gestures; Instructions; Pointing (Gesture)