{"id":903,"date":"2015-11-29T18:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/?p=903"},"modified":"2015-11-29T18:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T18:46:41","slug":"bistra-dudeva-kristina-stoyanova-gestures-and-%d0%b5nglish-language-teaching-in-a-medical-university-a-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Bistra Dudeva, Kristina Stoyanova \u2013 Gestures and \u0415nglish Language Teaching in a Medical University: a Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Logo-for-English.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-451\" src=\"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Logo-for-English.png\" alt=\"Bistra Dudeva, Kristina Stoyanova \u2013 Gestures and \u0415nglish Language Teaching in a Medical University: a Study \" width=\"200\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>Abstract<\/strong>. English language teaching at the medical university demonstrates the significance of gestures in oral communication. The aim of the study is to investigate the ability of students of the Medical University \u2013Sofia, Bulgaria, to acquire and accompany the use of English language (L2) phrases with the appropriate G2 gestures, characteristic of C2 culture where L2 communication is considered native. The study demonstrates the very limited ability of medical university students\u2019 to accompany the use of L2 with the appropriate gestures. It also demonstrates the significance of gestures in second language teaching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: English language teaching, gestures, medical university students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rhetoric and Communications E-journal, Issue 19, October 2015, rhetoric.bg\/, journal.rhetoric.bg, ISSN 1314-4464<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rhetoric.bg\/gestures-and-english-language-teaching-in-a-medical-university-a-study\">Read the original of the text (in English)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract. English language teaching at the medical university demonstrates the significance of gestures in oral communication. The aim of the study is to investigate the ability of students of the Medical University \u2013Sofia, Bulgaria, to acquire and accompany the use of English language (L2) phrases with the appropriate G2 gestures, characteristic of C2 culture where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-october-2015-issue-19"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}