Chapter published in:
Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicatingEdited by R. Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
[Gesture Studies 7] 2017
► pp. 285–316
Making and breaking common ground
How teachers use gesture to foster learning in the classroom
Teachers regularly use gesture as part of multimodal instruction to both break and make common ground. Teachers break common ground when they introduce new ideas and new mathematical practices. Teachers make common ground by connecting new ideas to students’ prior knowledge and to current disciplinary practices. Our findings show the importance of linking gestures, a highly regulated aspect of pedagogical communication, which is used to foster connection building, while reducing the cognitive demands for learners. A focus on the function of pedagogical gesture for managing common ground provides an account of classroom learning that resolves the Learning Paradox by examining the establishment, maintenance and disruption of common ground.
Published online: 26 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/gs.7.14nat
https://doi.org/10.1075/gs.7.14nat
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