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Abstract
This paper proposes pedagogical activities for teaching students about gesture's intimate involvement with assessed speaking activities. The focus is on oral presentations and the communicative practice of navigating a visual with the audience's attention intact. The classroom materials were based on research published in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and developed with three stages of input from language teachers at a university in Hong Kong. The class objectives are for students to discover how different ways of gesturing when explaining a visual can be demonstrably related to the presenters' situational awareness, content knowledge, and spoken language ability (in terms of grammatical complexity). While contributing to gesture pedagogy being developed from the perspectives of semiotic multimodality and Second Language Acquisition gesture studies, the materials embody an approach to gesture informed by enaction theory and ecological psychology.
本文提出了一些教学活动来教授学生手势与口语评估活动的亲密关系。重点是口头陈述和交际实践导航的视觉与观众的注意力完好无损。课堂材料基于发表在《学术英语杂志》(Journal of English for Academic Purposes)上的研究,由香港一所大学的语言教师分三个阶段进行编写。本课程的目标是让学生发现,在解释视觉效果时,不同的手势方式如何与演讲者的情境意识、内容知识和口语能力(就语法复杂性而言)有明显的联系。这些材料从符号学多模态和第二语言习得手势研究的角度为手势教育学的发展做出了贡献,同时体现了一种以动作理论和生态心理学为基础的手势研究方法。
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The Journal of English for Academic Purposes provides a forum for the dissemination of information and views which enables practitioners of and researchers in EAP to keep current with developments in their field and to contribute to its continued updating. JEAP publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges in the linguistic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic description of English as it occurs in the contexts of academic study and scholarly exchange itself.