My name is Gale Stam. I am Professor of Psychology at National Louis University. I
am also an alumna of the McNeill Gesture Lab at the University of Chicago, was an invited
researcher at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) in Aix-en-Provence, France
(February - June 2010), and retain close ties to both labs. My research interests include
language and culture, language and cognition, gesture, and first language and second
language acquisition.
I am particularly interested in thinking for speaking and gesture (the development of
first language thinking for speaking and how thinking for speaking about motion changes
both linguistically and gesturally with second language acquisition), speech and gesture
interlanguage, the effect of gesture in oral proficiency interviews, the function of
gesture in lexical retrieval, and language teachers’ gestures.
My current research projects are a study of gestures in teacher talk with Marion Tellier,
Aix-Marseille University and CNRS Laboratoire Parole et Langage, a longitudinal study of
L1 thinking for speaking, and a longitudinal study of changes in L2 thinking for
speaking.
Articles
Books
Contributions to Books
PDF
Introduction (with Mika Ishino), Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture (2011)
Selected Presentations
Same speech, same gestures? (with Marion Tellier and Brigitte Bigi), The Fifth Conference of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS 5): The Communicative Body in Development (2012)
Poetry