R. Breckinridge Church
Northeastern Illinois University(US)
Publications by Year
Research Areas
Hearing Impairment and Communication, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Hand Gesture Recognition Systems, Child and Animal Learning Development, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Most-Cited Works
- → The mismatch between gesture and speech as an index of transitional knowledge(1986)617 cited
- → Transitions in concept acquisition: Using the hand to read the mind.(1993)446 cited
- → Transitional knowledge in the acquisition of concepts(1988)349 cited
- → Offering a Hand to Pragmatic Understanding: The Role of Speech and Gesture in Comprehension and Memory(1999)295 cited
- → The Role of Gesture in Bilingual Education: Does Gesture Enhance Learning?(2004)191 cited
- → How Teachers Link Ideas in Mathematics Instruction Using Speech and Gesture: A Corpus Analysis(2013)148 cited
- → A Comparison between Children's and Adults' Ability to Detect Conceptual Information Conveyed through Representational Gestures(1998)128 cited
- → Students learn more when their teacher has learned to gesture effectively(2013)99 cited
- → Teachers’ gestures and speech in mathematics lessons: forging common ground by resolving trouble spots(2013)89 cited
- → Gesture enhances learning of a complex statistical concept(2017)66 cited