Gesturing Gives Children New Ideas About Math

Psychological Science - Tập 20 Số 3 - Trang 267-272 - 2009
Susan Goldin‐Meadow1, Susan Wagner Cook1, Zachary A. Mitchell1
1University of Chicago

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How does gesturing help children learn? Gesturing might encourage children to extract meaning implicit in their hand movements. If so, children should be sensitive to the particular movements they produce and learn accordingly. Alternatively, all that may matter is that children move their hands. If so, they should learn regardless of which movements they produce. To investigate these alternatives, we manipulated gesturing during a math lesson. We found that children required to produce correct gestures learned more than children required to produce partially correct gestures, who learned more than children required to produce no gestures. This effect was mediated by whether children took information conveyed solely in their gestures and added it to their speech. The findings suggest that body movements are involved not only in processing old ideas, but also in creating new ones. We may be able to lay foundations for new knowledge simply by telling learners how to move their hands.

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Psychological Science

Tập 20 Số 3

267-272

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