Body in mind: How gestures empower foreign language learning

By Manuela Macedonia, Thomas R. Knösche. 2011

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Manuela Macedonia
2. Katharina von Kriegstein

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Manuela Macedonia
2. Katharina von Kriegstein

In Social Psychology

1. Manuela Macedonia
2. Katharina von Kriegstein

Citations in the corpus

• Gestures Enhance Foreign Language Learning (2012, background): “More recently, Macedonia & Knösche (2011), investigated the impact of gestures on memory performance for abstract words learned in the context of sentences and proposed that performing a gesture when learning a word can fulfill two functions.”