ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on gesture production during bilingual French-English video-mediated interaction between undergraduate students. Two one-hour sessions were recorded using screen-recording software with the addition of an external camera in order to capture the gestures that were not made visible to the webcam. Our analyses first compare the gesture production (gesture dimension and gesture rate) of the two French participants across their two languages. Then, by applying an innovative annotation scheme designed to measure gesture visibility, we use the two camera views to measure and compare gesture visibility across languages. Results show differences in gesture production and in gesture visibility between participants and between their L1 and L2.