Can grammatical morphemes be taught? Evidence of gestures influencing second language procedural learning in middle childhood.

ABSTRACT: What kind of practice makes perfect when children learn to use grammatical morphemes in a second language? Gestures are communicative hand and arm movements which teachers naturally employ as a teaching tool in the classroom. Gesture theory has proposed that gestures package information and previous studies suggest their value for teaching specific items, such as words, as well as abstract systems, such as language. There is broad consensus that implicit learning mechanisms in children are more developed than explicit ones and that everyday use of grammar is implicit and entails developing implicit knowledge. However, while many learners have difficulties acquiring new morpho-syntactic structures, such as the plural{-s} and 3rd person possessive {-s} in English, research on gesture and syn

SUBMITTER: Janzen Ulbricht N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9891517 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature