Rebecca Boncoddo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rebecca Boncoddo plays a role.
Articles
2019 Teachers’ attitudes about gesture for learning and instruction Gesture 18:1, pp. 31–56 | Article
We developed and tested a survey instrument to measure teachers’ attitudes about gesture in learning and instruction (TAGLI). Teachers (N = 192) generally believed that instructional gestures are beneficial for learning, and not distracting for students. Teachers had positive expectations, both… read more
2017 Chapter 7. Gestures highlight perceptual-motor representations in thinking Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 155–174 | Chapter
Abstract
Gestures are adept at expressing perceptual and motor information. In this chapter, we propose that, as representational actions, gestures both stem from and influence perceptual representations, in much the same way that action and perception more generally exist in an… read more