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 and retain
close ties to the lab. My research interests include language and culture, language and
cognition, speech and gesture, and first and second language acquisition, particularly
the development of first language (L1) thinking for speaking and linguistic and gestural
changes in thinking for speaking with second language (L2) acquisition.

Articles

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Thinking for speaking about motion: L1 and L2 speech and gesture, International Review of Applied Linguistics (2006)
 

Books

Gesture: Second language acquisition and classroom research. (2008)
 

Contributions to Books

Gestes et recherche de mots en langue seconde, Volume d’Hommage à Claire Maury-Rouan (2010)
 
Gesture studies and second language acquisition: A review (with Steven G. McCafferty), Gesture studies and second language acquisition: A review (2008)
 
What gestures reveal about second language acquisition, Gesture: Second language acquisition and classroom research (2008)
 

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Second language acquisition from a McNeillian perspective, Gesture and the dynamic dimension of language: Essays in honor of David McNeill (2007)
 
Lexical failure and gesture in second language development, Oralité et gestualité: interactions et comportements multimodaux dans la communication (2001)
 

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Selected Presentations

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Speech and Gesture Workshop: Coding Videotaped Second Language Data, University of Southern Denmark (2010)
 

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Gesture: How Gestures Indicate Language Proficiency and Gesture: Coding Videotaped Data, National Taipei University, Ta Tung University of Technology and Science, and National Cheng Chi University (2009)
 
How Patterns of Thinking for Speaking Change: A Case Study, Language, Communication and Cognition Conference (2008)
 
Patterns of Thinking for Speaking, Years Later, Third Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS): Integrating Gestures (2007)
 
What Speech and Gesture Reveal about L2 Learners’ Thinking for Speaking about Motion, Nijmegen Gesture Centre Lecture Series 2006, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics (2006)
 

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