Using gesture and taste to solve a vocabulary problem

Rue Burch investigates how the use of gesture and the act of eating are used as resources to clarify a word that is unknown to the L2 user. In all of the cooking classes we observed, the cooks asked the learners to read the list of ingredients and menu out loud. In terms of the goal of cooking the dish, this helps to prepare the learners for what is going to be expected. But it also provides the learners an opportunity to ask questions and to focus on words that they may not be familiar with. He