Abstract

LEITE, Mariana Kerches da Silva  and  HUBNER, Maria Martha Costa. Acquisition of recombinative reading after training sand tests with dictated and printed words. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2009, vol.11, n.3, pp. 63-81. ISSN 1516-3687.

This paper presents a study had aimed to investigate the relevant variables in the process of emergence of minimal unit control and recombinative reading, with five preschool children. Using Equiv software, relations between oral and printed word (AC) were taught; afterwards, textual behavior of novel words were tested, which were composed by minimal units of the words taught previously. The program consisted of twenty experimental phases, divided into four basic types: Pretest, Pre- training, Training and Post- Test. The results showed that three participants presented recombinative reading closer to 100% correct performances, indicating transfer of discriminative functions of the minimal units trained to new words. In Post-Tests, all participants developed repertoire of naming oral words and syllables that weren’t able to name before. In Equivalence Tests applied in the final phase, the same three participants obtained performance closer to 100%, indicating reading comprehension. The results of these study point that the absence of training relations between oral word and picture (AB) and Equivalence Tests, didn’t inhibit the emergence of control by minimal units, suggesting economy in the procedures of recombinative reading. Hence, the quicker installment of minimal verbal units control than previous studies generates theoretical questions and suggests future researches in this direction.

Keywords : Acquisition of reading; Equivalence stimulus; Control by minimal units; Recombinative reading; Reading comprehension.

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