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Iconic gestures facilitate language comprehension in consecutive interpreting.

Jifei Zhang1, Xinle Huang2, Xiaoshu Wang2

  • 1School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China; School of Humanities and Foreign Studies, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an 710061, China.

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Iconic gestures aid language comprehension during consecutive interpreting (CI). Speech-gesture integration benefits second language (L2) learning, regardless of interpreting experience or task type.

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Chinese-English bilingualConsecutive interpretingIconic gestureLanguage comprehensionSpeech-gesture integration

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Iconic gestures enhance speech comprehension in first and second language contexts.
  • The role of speech-gesture integration in consecutive interpreting (CI) and its influencing factors remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate speech-gesture integration during consecutive interpreting (CI).
  • To determine if language tasks (passive viewing vs. CI) and interpreting experience affect this integration.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments utilized a modified cued-recall task with Chinese-English bilinguals.
  • Participants were exposed to utterances with semantically related gestures, unrelated gestures, or no gesture.
  • Experiment 1 involved bilinguals with no CI experience under passive viewing or CI tasks; Experiment 2 involved bilinguals with CI experience under CI tasks.

Main Results:

  • Bilinguals showed faster and more accurate responses with semantically related gestures in both language tasks.
  • Iconic gestures facilitated language comprehension during CI.
  • No significant interaction was found between gesture condition and language task or CI experience.

Conclusions:

  • Speech-gesture integration positively impacts language comprehension, even during consecutive interpreting (CI).
  • This integration appears robust and unaffected by the specific language task or prior interpreting experience.
  • Findings support the integrated-systems hypothesis for second language (L2) comprehension.