Learning a foreign language: Effects of tact and listener instruction on the emergence of bidirectional intraverbals.
J Appl Behav Anal
; 53(1): 484-492, 2020 01.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30924145
We evaluated the effects of tact and listener instruction on the emergence of bidirectional intraverbal relations with 6 typically developing Brazilian children, using an adapted alternating treatment design with pretest and posttest probes. In listener instruction, participants selected pictures that corresponded to spoken foreign-language words. For tact instruction, children had to vocalize foreign words in the presence of the corresponding pictures. After meeting mastery criteria, bidirectional intraverbal tests assessed vocalizations in Portuguese (native language) following the presentation of the equivalent words in English (foreign language) and vice versa. Tact instruction consistently produced higher levels of emergent intraverbal responding compared to listener instruction, confirming results from previous studies.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Verbal Behavior
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Multilingualism
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Language
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Learning
Limits:
Child
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
America do sul
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Brasil
Language:
En
Journal:
J Appl Behav Anal
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Country of publication:
United States