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,
Université de Provence – Aix-Marseille I 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

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

Books

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Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture (with Mika Ishino) (2011)
 

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Gesture: Second language acquisition and classroom research. (with Steven G. McCafferty) (2008)
 

Contributions to Books

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Second Language Acquisition and Gesture, The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2013)
 

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Introduction (with Mika Ishino), Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture (2011)
 

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Découvrir le pouvoir de ses mains : La gestuelle des futurs enseignants de langue. (with Marion Tellier), Actes du Colloque « Spécificités et diversité des interactions didactiques : disciplines, finalités, contextes », INRP (2010)
 

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Can an L2 Speaker’s Patterns of Thinking for Speaking Change?, Linguistic Relativity in SLA (2010)
 
Gesture studies and second language acquisition: A review (with Steven G. McCafferty), Gesture studies and second language acquisition: A review (2008)
 

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Selected Presentations

Gesture Space Differences in the Gestures of Future Language Teachers (with Marion Tellier), The Third Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III) (2011)
 
Gesture Space Differences in the Gestures of Future Language Teachers (with Marion Tellier), Laboratoire Parole et Langage (2011)
 
L1 thinking for speaking before age 3, 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) (2010)
 
"Gestures of future language teachers" (with Marion Tellier), 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) (2010)
 

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Gestures in Teacher Talk / Les gestes des futurs enseignants de langue (with Marion Tellier), séminaire LPL (2010)
 

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Other

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It was worse back then — or was it? (1987)