‘Wapper wat meer met je handen’: De invloed van gebaren op retentie en sprekerswaardering bij een informatieve presentatie

To convey information during an oral presentation speakers not only use words, they also gesticulate. Their gestures can be divided into iconic, metaphoric, deictic and beat gestures (McNeill, 1992). Beats (repetitive, short movements) are frowned upon by some presentation skills advisers. Earlier research that focused on short speeches, mostly...