Publications

Publication details [#53105]

Koshik, Irene and Mi-Suk Seo. 2010. A conversation analytic study of gestures that engender repair in ESL conversational tutoring. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (8) : 2219–2239.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | gesture | L2-acquisition | problem solving | repair

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This conversation analytic study discusses the usage of gestures to initiate repair in English as a second language conversational tutoring sessions. The gestures are most often conceived by the recipients as indicating problems in comprehending the prior talk. One of the gestures at least can also be deployed to prompt self-correction.