QUIROGA BAQUERO, Luis Alberto; PENA CORREAL, Telmo Eduardo    VARGAS, María Antonia Padilla. Effects of training type and linguistic mode on the adjustment to conventional contingencies. []. , 21, 1, pp.68-82. ISSN 0188-8145.

We assessed the effects of training two contextual linguistics competences acquired under one of two linguistic modes (read-write or speak-listen), with variations in spatial-temporal parameters, on the behavioral adjustment to the criteria of differentiality and effectiveness in linguistically mediated interactions. Forty undergraduates, between 17 and 27 years old, were randomly assigned to one of four experimental groups established from a factorial design combining two types of contextual language skills training and two differential linguistic modes. The experimental task consisted of a pretest phase, a training phase and a test of linguistic mediation of contingences. The results indicated that the acquisition, development and transfer of contextual language skills were affected by the linguistic mode in which such interactions occurred. The importance of studying the functional properties of linguistic modes of learning and communicative interactions and the need for conceptual thinking about the factors involved in setting linguistically mediated behavioral contingencies are discussed.

: linguistic modes; linguistic mediation of contingences; language skills; adjustment; undergraduates.

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