Michelle Perry
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michelle Perry is involved.
Articles
2024 Understanding conditions leading to student gestures during fractions lessons Gesture 23:1/2, pp. 64–96 | Article
Previous studies have shown that students’ gestures can support their learning, yet little is known about what might prompt students to use gestures while learning in mathematics classrooms. To address this, we observed the same fraction lesson, taught by 8 different teachers, in which we… read more
2014 The effect of gestured instruction on the learning of physical causality problems Gesture 14:1, pp. 26–45 | Article
Recent research has demonstrated instruction that includes gesture can greatly impact the learning of certain mathematics tasks for children and much of this work relies on face-to-face instruction. We extend the work on this problem by asking how gesture in instruction impacts adult learning from… read more