| dc.description.abstract | Verbal utterances and gestures are known to be semantically and pragmatically
coexpressive. Besides, gestures have a positive impact on speaker’s conceptual
planning of messages and student’s comprehension and learning motivation. This
observational study aimed to describe an EFL teacher uses gestures during the teaching
in the language classroom. The participant of this study was an Islamic senior high
school teacher with a bilingual classroom. A video recording was placed on the back
of the class to capture the teacher’s gestures and interaction of the teacher and the
students, and audio recording is put on the teacher’s table in the front of the class, and
the researcher was at the corner of the class to observe the class synchronously. The
data gathered were transcribed and analyzed using the AS-Unit for the utterances and
the categorization of gestures proposed by Wang and Loewen (2016). The finding
elaborated thoroughly all types of gestures produced by the teacher in her utterances
and presented the visual of the gestures. Hence, results of this study provide a teaching
reflection or the teacher and can be utilized as a model to be applied in providing
comprehensible input and establishing a better classroom atmosphere. | en_US |
