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Iconic Gesture Use in Preschool Children. Edition No. 1

VDM Publishing House, September 2009, Pages: 64

Gesturing is a fundamental human behaviour associated with communication, language use and cognition. Hitherto, there has been little research on gesture use in young children, but such evidence is needed at a time when, in the U.K., hand signing with preschool children has become increasingly popular. This study examines the use of spontaneous iconic gesturing in a large sample of young, preschool children (N = 121, mean age = 44.6 months, S.D = 7.8; 59 boys). Overall, we found that gestures are more frequent when children are asked to describe the function of an object when compared with object naming. In addition, girls gesture less frequently than boys when describing unfamiliar objects.

Alison, Ellson.
Alison Ellson (B.Mus, P.G.C.E., MSc) is an Early Childhood teacher and pre-school education advisor. She has worked extensively in the U.K and lately in Australia. Matthew Saxton (MA, MSc, DPhil) is a developmental psychologist with a special interest in child language acquisition, based at the Institute of Education, London.
Matthew, Saxton.
Alison Ellson (B.Mus, P.G.C.E., MSc) is an Early Childhood teacher and pre-school education advisor. She has worked extensively in the U.K and lately in Australia. Matthew Saxton (MA, MSc, DPhil) is a developmental psychologist with a special interest in child language acquisition, based at the Institute of Education, London.