List of Contributors

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Multimodality across Epistemologies in Second Language Research, Søren W. Eskildsen and Amanda Brown

Chapter 2: Gesture as a Means for Communicating and Understanding Embodied Conceptualizations in Second Language Interactions, Jana Bressem and Silva Ladewig

Chapter 3: Language, Embodiment and the Material Ecology: Embodied and Material Resources for Repairs in Second Language Interactions, Søren W. Eskildsen and Johannes Wagner

Chapter 4: Multimodality and Contingency Teaching: Promoting Interactive Read-alouds for Elementary Second Language Learners., Alessandro Rosborough and Jennifer J. Wimmer

Chapter 5: How Flexible seating Redefines the Place of the Body in the Language Classroom, Marion Tellier

Chapter 6: Learning to Embody the Teacher, Keli Yerian and Marion Tellier

Chapter 7: Conflicting Deictic Gestures in EFL Classrooms: Their Frequency, Mechanisms, and Learner Perception, Nobuhiro Kamiya

Chapter 8: Multimodal and Materially Embedded Meaning in L2 Interaction: Explaining and Understanding New Vocabulary, Søren W. Eskildsen

Chapter 9: The Effectiveness of Hand Gestures on the Development of L2 French Pronunciation, Solene Inceoglu and Ruri Ueda

Chapter 10: A Comparison of Gesture Production in L1 and L2 During a Video-mediated Task-based Teletandem Interaction, Benjamin Holt

Chapter 11: Gesture Shape and Gesture-speech Alignment Predict Simultaneous L2 Sound Production Accuracy, Peng Li, Florence Baills, Xiaotong Xi, and Pilar Prieto

Chapter 12: Patterned Iconicity for Second Language Acquisition: Differential Effects of Gesture Type on Lexical Category, Tasha N. Lewis, Matthew W. Kirkhart, and Elise Stickles

Chapter 13: Does Gesture Help L2 English Users Interpret Ambiguous Sentences with Quantification and Negation?, Amanda Brown and Masaaki Kamiya

Chapter 14: Predicting Gesture Use among Bilingual and Monolingual Children

Lauren Daley, Eugenia Gokhman, Christina Pechey, and Elena Nicoladis

Chapter 15: What Speech and Gesture Illustrate About the Thinking-for-Speaking Patterns of Child isiXhosa Speakers Learning English, Gale Stam, Heather Brookes, and Unathi Ngumbela

Chapter 16: Predictors of Gesture Viewpoint in L2: A Generalized Linear Mixed Models Analysis, Christopher Hromalik and Amanda Brown

Chapter 17: What Does Gesture Size Tell Us about L2 Language Acquisition and Use?: Gestures Accompanying Ideophones in L2 Japanese, Keiko Yoshioka and Noriko Iwasaki

Chapter 18: Gesturing the Discourse Marker Entonces in Native Speakers and Learners of Spanish, Renia Lopez-Ozieblo

Chapter 19: How ESL Speakers Use Gestures in Conversation and in Storytelling, Elena Nicoladis, Fajar Khan, and Xiaoting Li

Chapter 20: A Concluding Synthesis for Multimodality across Epistemologies in Second Language Research, Amanda Brown and Søren Wind Eskildsen

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