Jim Lantolf at Penn State does research on gesture and 2nd language.
Also, at the University of Nevada LV - Steve McCafferty.
And...vol, 14 (1) - Jan 2004 - of the International Journal of Applied
Linguistics has several articles.
Best,
Emily
Michael A. Evans wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I was hoping you could point me to resources that critique discourse
> analysis as an overly linguistic approach to interaction and meaning
> making...my request is based on a desire to ground analysis of video data of
> children using manipulatives (both physical and graphically-based) in
> collaborative efforts...what I want to capture is not only the speech but
> also gesture of primary students as they try to make sense of basic
> geometric concepts and principles using manipulatives (tangrams,
> pentominoes, geoboards, etc)...Iım searching for both philosophical
> (Vygotsky, Dewey, Pierce, Mead) and methodological references that emphasize
> the need to examine gesture and speech simultaneously...
>
> As for the latter, Iıve recently been working with David McNeill and his
> group at the U. of Chicago (http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/), but was hoping
> I could get more leads from the group...
>
> Thanks!
> Michael~
>
-- He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by storm. -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe Emily Duvall Doctoral Candidate (ABD) / Graduate Assistant-Instructor Language and Literacy Education (LLED) Department of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education Penn State University 256 Chambers Bldg. University Park , PA 16802 814-861-3315 (home) 814-404-6175 (cell) 814-863-4511 (office) FAX: 814-863-7602 email: edd130@psu.edu _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmcaReceived on Sat Apr 28 11:34 PDT 2007
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