Learning a foreign language: Effects of tact and listener instruction on the emergence of bidirectional intraverbals

Author(s)

Cortez, Mariele Diniz ^{[1, 2]} ; dos Santos, Leticia ^{[1, 2]} ; Quintal, Ana Elisa ^{[1, 2]} ; Silveira, V, Marcelo ; de Rose, Julio C. ^{[1, 3]}

Affiliation

^[1] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos - Brazil

^[2] Inst Nacl Ciencia & Tecnol Comportamento Cognicao, Sao Carlos - Brazil

^[3] Silveira, Marcelo, V, Inst Nacl Ciencia & Tecnol Comportamento Cognicao, Sao Carlos - Brazil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS; v. 53, n. 1, p. 484-492, JAN 2020.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

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. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/04133-6 - Effects of rules on do-say correspondence: a study based on the temptation resistance paradigm
• Grantee: Ana Elisa Quintal
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• FAPESP's process: 08/57705-8 - Institute for the Study of Behavior, Cognition and Teaching
• Grantee: Deisy das Graças de Souza
• Support type: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 16/17069-1 - Cooperative responding in rats under fixed and variable ratio reinforcement schedules
• Grantee: Letícia dos Santos
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• FAPESP's process: 17/06178-7 - The effects of different abitrary MTS training parameters on N400 signatures evoked by members of distinct equivalence classes in comparison to the N400 evoked by words from the natural language
• Grantee: Marcelo Vitor da Silveira
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 14/50909-8 - INCT 2014: Behavior, Cognition and Teaching (INCT-ECCE): relational learning and symbolic functioning
• Grantee: Deisy das Graças de Souza
• Support type: Research Projects - Thematic Grants