. Mime, Expressions and Gestures
Klippel (1994) implies that "mime or gesture is useful if it emphasizes the importance of gestures and facial expression on communication. At the essence it can not only be used to indicate the meaning of a word found in reading passage, but also in speaking activity as it stresses mostly on communication. Many words can be introduced through mime, expressions, and gestures. For example, adjectives: "sad"," happy"; mime and taking a hat off your head to teach hat and so on.
In addition to supporting comprehension, teaching gestures may also be relevant for learners’ memorization process. Indeed, many second language teachers who use gestures as a teaching strategy declare that they help learners in the process of memorizing the second language lexicon. Many of them have noticed that learners can retrieve a word easily when the teacher produces the gesture associated with the lexical item during the lesson. Others have seen learners (especially young ones) spontaneously reproducing the gesture when saying the word. The effect of gestures on memorisation is thus something witnessed by many but hardly explored on a systematic and empirical basis (Tellier, 2008).