The Israeli experience of crosscultural misunderstanding: insights and lessons

Schneller, R.

doi:10.1080/02500168908537665

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“…They found that non-native children understood significantly fewer gestures than the native children, suggesting not only that emblems are cultural artefacts that need to be learned, but also that acculturation is necessary for their acquisition. Similar findings are reported for other language pairs and settings (e.g., Safadi and Valentine 1988;Schneller 1988;Wolfgang and Wolofsky 1991).…”

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“…The simple answer is because gestures are everywhere and affect all human interactions. The command of the gestural repertoire of a language is important to the individual learners' communicative efficiency and "cultural fluency" (Poyatos 1983) -perhaps less in terms of misunderstandings (Schneller 1988) than in terms of the general integration in the target culture. Moreover, to SLA research the acquisition of gestures holds theoretical interest in that it suggests a different and much expanded view of what it means to be native-or target-like.…”

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Some reasons for studying gesture and second language acquisition (Hommage à Adam Kendon)

Gullberg¹

2006

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

124

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This paper outlines some reasons for why gestures are relevant to the study of SLA. First, given cross-cultural and cross-linguistic gestural repertoires, gestures can be treated as part of what learners can acquire in a target language. Gestures can therefore be studied as a developing system in their own right both in L2 production and comprehension. Second, because of the close link between gestures, language, and speech, learners' gestures as deployed in L2 usage and interaction can offer valuable insights into the processes of acquisition, such as the handling of expressive difficulties, the influence of the first language, interlanguage phenomena, and possibly even into planning and processing difficulties. As a form of input to learners and to their interlocutors alike, finally, gestures also play a potential role for comprehension and learning

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Some reasons for studying gesture and second language acquisition (Hommage à Adam Kendon)

Gullberg¹

2006

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

124

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“…This appropriate use of gesture applies to more than just the nuts and bolts of L2 phonetics, vocabulary and grammar—it also has pragmatic and cultural functions. In Gullberg’s own words, “[t]he command of the gestural repertoire of a language is important to the individual learners’ communicative efficiency and ‘cultural fluency’ ( Poyatos, 1983 )—perhaps less in terms of misunderstandings ( Schneller, 1988 ) than in terms of the general integration in the target culture” ( Gullberg, 2006 , p. 116).…”

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Emblem Gestures Improve Perception and Evaluation of Non-native Speech

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Traditionally, much of the attention on the communicative effects of non-native accent has focused on the accent itself rather than how it functions within a more natural context. The present study explores how the bodily context of co-speech emblematic gestures affects perceptual and social evaluation of non-native accent. In two experiments in two different languages, Mandarin and Japanese, we filmed learners performing a short utterance in three different within-subjects conditions: speech alone, culturally familiar gesture, and culturally unfamiliar gesture. Native Mandarin participants watched videos of foreign-accented Mandarin speakers (Experiment 1), and native Japanese participants watched videos of foreign-accented Japanese speakers (Experiment 2). Following each video, native language participants were asked a set of questions targeting speech perception and social impressions of the learners. Results from both experiments demonstrate that familiar-and occasionally unfamiliaremblems facilitated speech perception and enhanced social evaluations compared to the speech alone baseline. The variability in our findings suggests that gesture may serve varied functions in the perception and evaluation of non-native accent.

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The ability of new Canadians to decode gestures generated by Canadians of Anglo-Celtic backgrounds

Wolfgang

Wolofsky

1991

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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The Israeli experience of crosscultural misunderstanding: insights and lessons

Cited by 3 publications

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Some reasons for studying gesture and second language acquisition (Hommage à Adam Kendon)

Some reasons for studying gesture and second language acquisition (Hommage à Adam Kendon)

Emblem Gestures Improve Perception and Evaluation of Non-native Speech

The ability of new Canadians to decode gestures generated by Canadians of Anglo-Celtic backgrounds

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