tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657377509284409233.post1485096999208410089..comments2011-06-28T18:39:22.799-07:00Name: Debra Garcia, M.A.noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657377509284409233.post-37848383815923707372011-06-28T13:51:03.607-07:002011-06-28T13:51:03.607-07:00I am teaching air quotes to my english class now, and actually showing the video from friends with joey&#39;s quotes :<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW8OkSJvhvE&amp;feature=relatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657377509284409233.post-68487547229929295532010-09-30T09:05:37.792-07:002010-09-30T09:05:37.792-07:00Yes! I used the Friends&#39; episode, the student&#39;s were laughing hysterically! (there&#39;s a lot of slapstick in that episode too, funny even for low-level learners). They loved the fact that Joey also had no idea how to use them. You can get a great short version of it on youtube. Before I showed them the clips, I explained that &quot;air quotes&quot; are just like written quotation marks, in the sense that they indicate you are repeating the exact word or words that someone else said. Usually we use them to indicate that we disapprove of the words, either we think they are wrong or stupid. Hope that helps!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657377509284409233.post-63445447109082279852007-06-27T14:16:00.000-07:002007-06-27T14:16:00.000-07:00This is fascinating. I'd never considered hand gestures as being a part of the ESL process, but it's clear it would be. There are such things as idiomatic gestures, right? Many of them obscene.<BR/><BR/>Best.Proffer5noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657377509284409233.post-53985696207797828462007-06-27T09:31:00.000-07:002007-06-27T09:31:00.000-07:00Never really crossed this bridge, I suspect because the "air quotes" coming from myself would never happen. A controlled learning space has been my motto, now if this was on the learning list for the day, it would be tackled. Showing the Friends episode would be a good introduction, have the students act-out the scenes in front of the class, some of the dialogue, etc. One can find the dialogue online somewhere, I do this in class for movies as well 'see below).<BR/><BR/>Most students from Japan anyway, do not use their hands to accentuate a point. A wonderful cultural lesson and one which is used by all in differing ways. The student needs to know we native speakers from N.A. often have no idea what some "hand language" from the UK means, and vice-versa. Often I find students assume native speakers of English, all act, speak and understand the same. "Same same" as my students would say. One pot so to speak. I was shocked to discover the deaf in Japan use a different type of hand language than other countries, in other words, I am told all deaf communicators use different sign language depending on their geographic area of language. This makes sense, I simply thought "same same".<BR/><BR/>Cheers, Steve<BR/><BR/>Scripts (movie/TV): http://www.script-o-rama.com/<BR/>Gestures, great examples and resource list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_quotes<BR/><BR/>www.eslspider.com<BR/>www.healthyexpat.comSteveeslspider.comnoreply@blogger.com