Open AccessStudy on Gesture Use of English Learners under Different Task Difficulty
Author(s) -
Jie Meng,
Shuang Yu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2424-8428
DOI - 10.18686/ahe.v4i1.1855
Subject(s) - gesture , task (project management) , process (computing) , point (geometry) , computer science , body language , gesture recognition , information transmission , human–computer interaction , psychology , linguistics , communication , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , engineering , computer network , geometry , mathematics , systems engineering , operating system , philosophy
Language is an important tool for people to communicate. In addition to language, body movements and facialexpressions can also convey certain information, which is commonly known as body language. The coordination ofwords and gestures enriches the transmission of emotional information. The coordination between language and gesturefurther increases the vividness of information transmission and the listener can also get richer information from it, so asto clarify the speaker's deeper intention. From this point of view, the combination of language and gesture has certainresearch value. Based on this, this paper mainly studies learners' gestures in the process of English learning and furtherexplores their relationship with the difficulty of tasks.