Mastery of Echoics in Chinese Establishes Bidirectional Naming in Chinese for Preschoolers with Naming in English

Autor/inn/en	Cao, Yu; Greer, R. Douglas
Titel	Mastery of Echoics in Chinese Establishes Bidirectional Naming in Chinese for Preschoolers with Naming in English
Quelle	In: Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 34 (2018) 1-2, S.79-99 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cao, Yu)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0889-9401
DOI	10.1007/s40616-018-0106-1
Schlagwörter	Chinese; Naming; Preschool Children; Second Language Learning; Monolingualism; Verbal Communication; Behavior; English (Second Language); Experiments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? China; Chinesen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Erprobung
Abstract	The onset of the verbal behavior developmental cusp of bidirectional naming (BiN) in a second language makes it possible for monolingual English-speaking children to learn names of things in a second language incidentally. We conducted 2 experiments to identify why monolingual English-speaking children cannot demonstrate BiN in another language when they demonstrated BiN in their native language. In Experiment I, using a group design (n = 32 preschoolers), we identified Chinese speech sounds that monolingual English-speaking children with BiN in English for familiar stimuli could not echo. In Experiment II, using a multiple-probe design, we investigated if mastery of echoics with the speech sounds identified in Experiment I would result in BiN in Chinese with 6 participants from Experiment I. The dependent variable was untaught responses to the probe stimuli presented following the naming experience based on the echoic stimuli from Experiment I. The results showed that echoic training was functionally related to the establishment of BiN in the second language. It appeared that the emission of accurate echoics might be the key to second-language BiN and that emergent correspondence between producing and hearing that occurs with the mastery of the echoic responding may be the source of reinforcement. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01