Literature Review on Gesture Studies in Language Teaching/Learning

Abstract

Teaching/learning a foreign language is an activity that calls for creativity and innovativeness on the part of the teacher for his/her set objectives to be met. The main goal for such an activity is to enable the learner to communicate in the target language both in writing and speaking. Many are the strategies that have been used the world over by those in this practice of teaching foreign languages. It is in this regard that we examine how gestures have been used as a strategy among others and the extent to which they impacted on learning. Reference is made to the works of researchers in the world as a whole, and in Africa in particular.