Acquisition, translativity and transfer of a matching to sample task under different language modes

Abstract

The linguistic modes during its acquisition are identified as complementary pairs (King & Quigley, 1985; Marschark, 1993; Rondal, 1980). These pairs are named active and reactive based depending on its functional relationship. The acquisition of the reactive modes precedes the active one and it is necessary to give feedback to the precision and efficiency of the active modes. The pairs gesticulating/pointing-observing, writing-reading and speaking-listening can therefore, be identified. The reactive modes represent functions of the individual such as reader listener and observer. The active modes work as mediators of other modes. They represent the individual's actions such as: pointer/gesticulator, speaker and writer (Ribes, 1990; Gómez Fuentes, & Ribes, 2008).