Iconic gestures can help a speaker as well as a listener. In one experiment, researchers observed speakers using gestures while they described a picture. The researchers discovered that these gestures ______.

a. improved the credibility of the speakers
b. increased the fluency of the speakers
c. decreased the performance anxiety of the speakers
d. improved the short-term memory of the speakers

d. improved the short-term memory of the speakers

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Carolina has lived in a rural town in Japan to teach English to junior high school students for five months

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