The Use of Gesture Reproduction in Young Levocabulary Retention in Efl Classroo

This current study explored the role of gesture reproduction in young learners’ vocabulary retention as well as the way this nonverbal support can help the 22 students of the 4th grade in SD Leupung 26 in retaining lexical items. The students were treated with gesture reproduction based approach which required them to reproduce the same gesture as what the teacher did. At the end, they were tested to recall the previous words through translation and comprehension task in the fifth meeting. The result shows that t0 (8.797) was greater than ttable(1.721) which means that there was an improvement in the students’ vocabulary retention. It might happen by the help of their attention on teacher’s gesture, repetition on teacher’s pronunciation as well as reproduction of the same gesture as the teacher. Thus, all of those acts became the support to students in recalling the previous words given by the teacher