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Publication Date: 2020
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Learning a Foreign Language: Effects of Tact and Listener Instruction on the Emergence of Bidirectional Intraverbals
Cortez, Mariéle Diniz; dos Santos, Letícia; Quintal, Ana Elisa; Silveira, Marcelo V.; de Rose, Julio C.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, v53 n1 p484-492 Win 2020
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.
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pretests Posttests, Pictorial Stimuli, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension, Task Analysis, Mastery Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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