Bodo Winter

International Conference 2019
Featured Session

New Research on Gesture: Implications for Language Learning and Teaching

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Gesture is ubiquitous. When we talk, we can't help but to move our hands, and so far, speakers from all cultures have been found to gesture. The interdisciplinary study of gesture spans research in education, linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience, and it has produced a number of important results: For example, research has shown that speakers have difficulty retrieving words from memory when their hands are occupied. Research has also shown that students' gestures give clues to their understanding of concepts, and the gestures of teachers help students learn new words and concepts. In this talk, I will review interdisciplinary gesture research conducted at the University of Birmingham and elsewhere, and I will outline implications for language learning and teaching.

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Invited Second Session

How to Publish Your Research in International Journals, Conference Proceedings, and Books

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Publishing is incredibly hard. There are various publishing formats to choose from (journals, proceedings, edited volumes, books, etc.), as well as myriads of publishers and journals. It's also easy to fall prey to "predatory publishers" in obscure journals, which may end up costing you a lot of money for little gain. This talk outlines the publication process and gives hands-on advice on how to get your research published in international journals and other outlets. I will draw from my experience as a general editor at the international journal Language and Cognition, as well as from countless reviewing experiences for books and journals from various publishers.

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Biographical Sketch

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Bodo Winter is a lecturer in cognitive linguistics at the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK. He has received his MA in General Linguistics from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and his PhD in cognitive and information sciences from the University of California, Merced. Dr. Winter has also been a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and is a general editor of the Cambridge University Press journal Language and Cognition, as well as a Mercator Fellow of the University of Cologne, Germany.

Dr. Winter has written the book Sensory Linguistics: Language, Perception, and Metaphor (John Benjamins), as well as a textbook on Statistics for Linguists (Routledge, in press). In his research, he investigates a wide range of topics, including language and perception, gesture, metaphor, sound symbolism, nonverbal politeness, and statistical methods in linguistics. At the University of Birmingham, Dr. Winter is also teaching for the distance and campus-based MA programs in TESOL and applied linguistics.

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Bodo Winter Media on the Web

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Article: Gestures Change Minds (The English Connection, Autumn 2019)
PDF available at bottom of page.

Video: Language, Perception, and Gesture ㅡ Dr. Bodo Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHhe5uQpadk

Twitter Profile: @bodowinter
https://twitter.com/bodowinter

Webpage: Bodo Winter
http://www.bodowinter.com

Bodo Winter's participation in the 2019 Korea TESOL International Conference is partially sponsored by the University of Birmingham.