Abstract

GOMEZ FUENTES, Agustín Daniel; ZEPETA GARCIA, Enrique; GARCIA PEREZ, Zaira Jacqueline  and  MOLINA LOPEZ, Cecilia Magdalena. ENABLING ACTIVE MODES OF LANGUAGE FROM THE REACTIVE OBSERVING MODE. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.1, pp.13-24. ISSN 0123-9155.  https://doi.org/10.14718/ACP.2015.18.1.2.

The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of enabling linguistic active modes of language by pointing out, writing and speaking from the reactive mode observing. Participants were 15 experimentally naive students, twelve men and three women, aged 14, who attended third grade in a public Junior High School in the city of Xalapa. A second-order matching to sample task with geometric figures was used. The design chosen was experimental with three groups and consisted of an initial test, familiarization phase, exposure phase and final test. The results suggest that the exposure to the observing mode enabled the matching responses in the three active modes of language with different performance levels. The largest level was speaking, then was writing and the lower was pointing out. The percentage of response discrimination was slightly higher in color similarity, followed by the difference in color and form and slightly lower percentage in shape similarity. The results are discussed based on the concept of enabling linguistic modes.

Keywords : Language; human behavior; spoken language.

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