Abstract
The effective teaching of language is an aspect of special relevance regarding the good adjustment of children in contexts such as school, family, or community. This article performs an experimental procedure to check which language teaching methodology is most effective in a sample of children. The objective was to analyze the influence of training, Condition 1 (pure tacts more intraverbal) or Condition 2 (pure tacts more impure tacts), on emergence of two tests involving impure tacts (AB-C, AB-D) and four new complex intraverbals (BC-D, BD-C) for each of two sets of stimuli (Set 1 and Set 2). The sample comprised 54 children aged between 6 and 12 years, divided into two groups of different experimental conditions. The results revealed statistically significant differences in performance on the tests of impure tacts and complex intraverbal, obtaining highly effective results in Condition 2. This teaching method using compound stimuli (impure tacts) clearly favors the expansion of language. The practical implications of this work can be more effective language teaching methodologies implemented that favor the good psychosocial adjustment of children in contexts such as family, school, or the community in general.
Highlights
In this study, two very relevant aspects of verbal behavior and the procedures used to expand it are distinguished
The results revealed a significant difference in the participants’ performances on the impure tact tests according to the two conditions in Set 1 and Set 2, with better results being obtained in Condition 2 than in Condition 1
According to the data obtained here, it appears that the training employed in the second condition of this experiment clearly produced superior performance when testing impure tacts and the emergence of complex intraverbals when compared with the training given in the first condition, so our first experimental hypothesis is proven
Summary
Two very relevant aspects of verbal behavior and the procedures used to expand it are distinguished. It is relevant to this work to emphasize that the role of the good development of language in the psychosocial adjustment of children in contexts such as the family, school, or community is exposed. The potential implications and benefits that this has for children and adolescents further enhance the importance of applying these procedures and taking into account said factors to achieve sustainable development, directly on verbal behavior, and on its optimal development at a psychosocial level. The family climate has a crucial role in contributing to the development of specific aspects such as well-being, behavior, and development at the psychosocial levels [2], as well as language and thought [3]. One of the most outstanding aspects of the family climate is communication, that is, the linguistic and communicative interaction that is established between parents and children [4,5,6]
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