청각장애아동과 건청아동의 학년별 문자 이해력 비교 분석

Abstract

The most important difficulty in the field of deaf education is how to teach literacy ability effective for hearing impaired children. The vocabularies understanding is an important fundamental ability to learn the meaning of sentences and semantics in reading and writing. The purpose of this study was to compare and analyze the abilities of vocabularies understanding between hearing impaired and hearing children. One hundred and twenty hearing impaired and one hundred and twenty hearing children who are the first through sixth grade in elementary levels. Korean Standard Vocabulary Test material was adopted to check the vocabulary understanding ability. T-test was utilized for this study. The results were that (a) the hearing impaired children showed steady and slow development to understand the vocabularies; (b) the hearing children indicated rapid development to understand the ability of vocabularies in fourth grade after third grade; and (c) the hearing impaired children delayed about two years later in vocabulary understanding than those of the hearing children. However, the vocabularies understanding ability of the sixth grade hearing impaired children did not exceed fourth grade level in those of the hearing children. Therefore this study concluded that hearing impaired children's vocabulary understanding ability is limited in hearing children's fourth grade. This study also suggested that bicultural and bilingual approach which is a new language teaching method is adopted in the field of hearing impaired education to develop the vocabulary abilities.