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Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2010) 2219–2239 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Pragmatics journal homepage: ww w.els evier .com/locat e/pragma A conversation analytic study of gestures that engender repair in ESL conversational tutoring§ Mi-Suk Seo a,*, Irene Koshik b a California State University, Sacramento, Department of English, 6000 J St, Sacramento, CA 95819, United States b University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Linguistics, 4080 FLB, 707 South Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, United States A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: This paper reports on results of a conversation analytic study of gestures used to initiate Received 5 May 2008 repair in ESL conversational tutoring sessions. These gestures function in similar ways to Received in revised form 16 January 2010 verbal ‘‘open class’’ (Drew, 1997) repair initiators such as ‘‘huh?’’ They are unaccompanied Accepted 28 January 2010 by verbal initiations, i.e., the nonverbal behavior alone is understood to be initiating repair. One gesture consists of a sharp head turn or head tilt to the side, with continued eyegaze Keywords: on the recipient, sometimes accompanied by a widening of the eyes. The other is a head Conversation analysis Repair poke forward, accompanied with a movement of the upper body forward toward the Gesture recipient. The gestures ar