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Publication details [#55503]

Gan, Zhengdong and Chris Davison. 2011. Gestural behavior in group oral assessment: a case study of higher- and lower-scoring students. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 21 (1) : 94–120.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

Annotation

This study discusses the dissimilarities in gesture usage between higher- and lower-scoring ESL secondary school students in group oral language evaluation contexts. The gestures of the higher-scoring student group seem to harmonize with the speech flow, turn-taking, and other nonverbal conduct, at all the three discourse levels.