Using gestures to teach verbs.

1. Using Gestures to Teach
Verbs
Alexandra Shea
06/02/15
ENGL 382
Quarles

2. Words in Action
• Netherlands
• 49 students
• 18 male 31 female
• Not bilingual
• 24 Verbs
• 3 sets of 8 verbs
• Abstract
• Locomotion
• Manipulation

3. Different Gestures

5. Results
• Children with good vocabulary skills had higher
learning outcomes in enactment than verbal
definition
• Children with poor vocabulary didn’t benefit as well
as they thought.
• Children with poor vocabulary couldn’t gesture
abstract verbs.

6. Sources
de Nooijer, J. A., Gog, T. v., Paas, F., & Zwaan, R. A.
(2014). Words in action. Gesture, 14(1), 46-69.

7. Sources
de Nooijer, J. A., Gog, T. v., Paas, F., & Zwaan, R. A.
(2014). Words in action. Gesture, 14(1), 46-69.