Gestures are often regarded as the most typical compensatory device used by language learners in communicative trouble. Yet gestural solutions to communicative problems have rarely been studied within any theory of second language use. The work presented in this volume aims to account for second language learners' statregic use of speech-associated gestures by combining a process-oriented framework for communication strategies with a cognitive theory of gesture.

Two empirical studies are presented.
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