The Impact of Gesturing
The Impact of Gesturing Gesturing is a powerful phenomenon that has a more significant effect than what is usually recognized. Whether people are using it to teach or have a friendly conversation, it allows the listeners to be more engaged and have a visual sense of what is being told. Gesturing while speaking has a large effect on developing children and adults. Elizabeth Wakefield did a study on how gesturing can help learners learn. She did this by taking 50 kids ages 8 to 10. An eye tracker was set for each participant with the control group and experimental group. The control group are the members that watched the problem with no gestures and the experimental group watched with gesturing occurring. It was founded that in the post-test, the experimental group did better than the control group. It was also founded that the experimental group would watch the problem and gesture space more while in the control group, they woul...