Teachers' Use of Gesture to Promote Productive Communication: A Multimodal Analysis

• In Event: 56.074 - Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meanings, and Multimodalities

Abstract

Gesture is an inherent part of how we communicate with others. In a typical school day, a teacher can employ a number of gestures, in order to assist meaning making – whether consciously or subconsciously. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the significance of gesture, as it is employed by two elementary school teachers to aid in modeling productive communication.

Authors

• Amanda Moura Ramia

• Lynn Shanahan, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Mary B. McVee, University at Buffalo - SUNY