Research has shown that observing iconic gestures helps typically developing children (TD)
and children with specific language impairment (SLI) learn new words. So far, studies mostly …

Purpose Semantic learning under 2 co-speech gesture conditions was investigated in
children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children …

A training study examined novel word learning in 2-year-old children and assessed two
nonverbal mechanisms, pictures and gestures, which are commonly used as communication …

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the role of gestures on novel word learning
in preschoolers. In Study 1, 20 children at the average age of 4; 9 years were given novel …

Learning academic vocabulary is a crucial task for all students, but especially challenging
for students with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) and those who are …

This study investigated whether seeing iconic gestures depicting verb referents promotes
two types of generalization. We taught 3‐to 4‐year‐olds novel locomotion verbs. Children …

The current paper provides empirical support for adults using co-speech gesturing with
children with and without early language delay. The discussion starts broad by showing that …

Previous research suggests that presenting redundant nonverbal semantic information in
the form of gestures and/or pictures may aid word learning in first and foreign languages. But …

Asking children to gesture while being taught a concept facilitates their learning. Here, we
investigated whether children benefitted equally from producing gestures that reflected …

The integration of gestures and pictures into pedagogy has demonstrated potential for
improving adults' learning of foreign language (L2) vocabulary. However, the relative …