Asuman Simsek Tontus

Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation Classroom interaction research has increasingly embraced the analysis of multimodal resources, including teacher gestures, alongside verbal input in eliciting student contributions. This focus has ...

Our article (w/İpek Kuru Gönen) is now out in @sociosemiotics, showing how the teacher’s unique configuration of online L2 interaction enabled students to participate through hand gestures, demonstrating the applicability of gestures in VMI. If you are interested in gesturing in online settings 👇🏼💻