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The gesture that was first introduced by Cristelle is developed in two distinctstages by Daniel as he accepts and adapts the gesture for himself. This helpsbuild up an atmosphere of shared meaning and understanding. In pre-sessionallanguage training programmes it may be useful for teachers to encourage theirstudents to extend and develop the metaphors that have been introduced tothe conversation by their lecturers. This would provide lecturers with immediatefeedback on the extent to which the metaphor and topic have been understoodor misconstrued. This could facilitate progression as it would give students anopportunity to be creative with their metaphor and gesture use whilst beingmonitored by their lecturer within an environment of shared understanding.What happens when metaphors are misunderstood?Metaphor can also be a cause of confusion, although for the native speaker itmay not be apparent why misunderstandings might arise. We can see this in thefollowing extract from the tutorial with John and Lola, where both are using theverb ‘look’:http://youtu.be/RXfPqPvdWwcLolaJohnLolaJohnLolaJohnLolaJohnLolaSo I will look for this words on internet, and, I use themOk, you’ll look at, yeah, will you look at any, because one of thestrange things about you studying applied linguistics is that youare, you’re studying what you’re doing in a way, so a lot of peoplein linguistics have talked about these things. They sometimes callthem discourse markers, yeah? They call them linking words theycall them discourse markers so they, they’ve been a lot of studieson these. Would you consider looking at that kind of thing lookingat the things that linguists say about these things or would you justlook in the dictionary or internet, urm, because, so, in the, in theurm, in the last, the last lecture, you looked at some of the featuresof speechYesSo things like when people reformulate what they say start againand say it in a different way, and I think academic essays they havetheir own features as well as you knowFor example have we do, have we got to do any essay in TELLING,not for the momentNot for monthsIt will be okay.So you’re not worried about itI could practice.International Students | 369