Gestos manuais aplicados ao ensino de língua estrangeira: estratégias de produção de insumo compreensível

Abstract

This paper aims at reflecting on the importance of hand gestures associated with speaking in foreign language teaching. Considering a scenario in which the teacher makes use of the target language in most communicative interactions established with the apprentices, we intend to analyze the influence of gestures in producing comprehensible input. In this study, we call upon the reflections of Callegari (2006) and Schütz (2014) on the theoretical model of second language acquisition proposed by Stephen Krashen (1985, 1987) and studies of Pereira (2010) and Lima and Cruz Santos (2012), on the relationship between gesture, speech and cognitive processes in the evolution of language competence. The stages of our research are defined as follows: identify the presence of hand gestures in a video in which Krashen performs two exercises in German for native English speakers. Then we analyze the gestures observed leaving the functions proposed by Pereira (2010) and Lima and Cruz Santos (2012), namely, the disambiguation of the message content, the organization of speech, marking related and exploitation of imagery in preparing the content of speech.