Gesturing makes learning last
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Gesturing makes learning last.
The gestures children spontaneously produce when explaining a task predict whether they will subsequently learn that task. Why? Gesture might simply reflect a child's readiness to learn a particular task. Alternatively, gesture might itself play a role in learning the task. To investigate these alternatives, we experimentally manipulated children's gesture during instruction in a new mathematic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.010