Teachers’ gestures facilitate students’ learning: A lesson in symmetry

By Laura Valenzeno, Martha W. Alibali, Roberta L. Klatzky. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

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Effects of Different Video Lecture Types on Sustained Attention, Emotion, Cognitive Load, and Learning Performance (2015, background): “visible in the video of a lecturer) enhance learning (Church et al., 2004; Valenzeno et al., 2003).”
Gesture's Role in the Learning Process (2004, background): “The few experimental studies that have been done suggest that a lesson accompanied by gesture is more effective than that same lesson not accompanied by gesture (Church, Ayman-Nolley, & Mahootian, 2004; Perry, Berch, & Singleton, 1995; Valenzeno, Alibali, & Klatzky, 2003 ).”
Socio-Pragmatics and Attention: Contributions to Gesturally Guided Word Learning in Toddlers (2008, background): “7 These findings contribute to our understanding of gesture as a support for learning broadly defined (eg, Church, Ayman-Nolley, & Mahootian, 2004 ; Valenzeno, Alibali, & Klatzky, 2003 ).”
How Teachers Link Ideas in Mathematics Instruction Using Speech and Gesture: A Corpus Analysis (2014, background): “In light of this work on gestures as a semiotic resource for communication in classroom settings, it is not surprising that teachers’ gestures make a difference in students’ learning from instruction (e.g., Goldin-Meadow, Kim, & Singer, 1999; Singer & Goldin-Meadow, 2005; Valenzeno et al., 2003).”
Facilitating Understanding of Movements in Dynamic Visualizations: an Embodied Perspective (2011, background): “This has been observed in various learning tasks including mathematical equivalence tasks (Church et al. 2004; Perry et al. 1995) and tasks involving symmetry (Valenzeno et al. 2003).”
The Role of Gesture in Learning: Do Children Use Their Hands to Change Their Minds? (2006, background): “Children are more likely to profit from instruction when the instruction includes gesture than when it does not (Church, Ayman-Nolley, & Estrade, 2004; Perry, Berch, & Singleton, 1995; Singer & Goldin-Meadow, 2005; Valenzeno, Alibali, & Klatzky, 2003 ).”
Embodiment in Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Evidence From Learners' and Teachers' Gestures (2012, background): “For example, in one study of kindergarten students learning about symmetry, children succeeded on more than twice as many posttest items after a lesson that included pointing gestures than after a comparable lesson that did not include pointing gestures ( Valenzeno, Alibali, & Klatzky, 2003 ).”