Integrating Mobile Applications into Hearing Impaired Children s Literacy Instuction       
Yazarlar (4)
Doç. Dr. Fatih YAMAN Anadolu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Onur Dönmez
Ege Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Elif Avcı
Anadolu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Işıl Kabakçı Yurdakul
Anadolu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Egitim Ve Bilim
Dergi ISSN 1300-1337 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SSCI
Dergi Grubu Q4
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 11-2016
Cilt No 41
Sayı 188
Sayfalar 153 / 174
DOI Numarası 10.15390/EB.2016.6687
Makale Linki http://egitimvebilim.ted.org.tr/index.php/EB/article/view/6687
Özet
Literacy is a fundamental skill to function in society. However, hearing impaired are severely disadvantaged in literacy development by lack of access to language's phonemic system. Recent developments in information and communication technologies stimulated technology integration endeavors in special education field. Hearing impaired children's literacy instruction stands a fruitful area of technology integration. Former studies generally reported development or examination of supportive tools like visual dictionaries, sign language support, vocabulary drills or storybooks. However, few studies developed an overall approach and reported whole technology integration procedures. This study reports findings from a research which investigated the affordances of mobile devices in hearing impaired children's literacy instruction. Two mobile applications were built from scratch and optimized through design based research. Furthermore, affordances and integration guidelines of these applications were investigated in a case study. The research was conducted in Anadolu University's Applied Research Center for Hearing Impaired Children (ICEM). Participants of the study are hearing impaired children studying at IcEM in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 academic years. Data sources of the project were observations, video recordings, audio recordings of expert panels and semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed inductively using NVivo 10 software. Results suggested significant increase in student motivation towards the technology enriched instructional environment. This paper summarizes design and optimization studies along with technology integration guidelines to hearing impaired children's literacy classes.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Hearing-impaired children | Literacy instruction | Mobile application development | Mobile storybook