Publications

Publication details [#39755]

Mahootian, Shahrzad, Ruth Breckinridge Church and Saba Ayman-Nolley. 2004. The Role of Gesture in Bilingual Education: Does Gesture Enhance Learning? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 7 (4) : 303–319.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | communicative function | gesture

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This analysis demonstrates that providing an English speech and gesture math instructional tape to Spanish-speaking children in an English school improved their learning as gestural representation is not tied to a particular language.