이중언어주의에 근거한 언어교육이 농아동의 언어능력과 가족 간의 의사소통에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This study was to investigate the effect of the bilingual language education which focused on the communication of deaf children with his family members. The target child of this study was a elementary deaf school student with his mother and a younger sister. The results of this study are as following: First, the deaf child's Korean vocabularies have improved in this bilingual education. Second, the communication mode of deaf child with his family members has changed from speech, letter, mime to speech and sign. The degree of their communication has improved, and this affirmative change was found in consultation with family members. This result suggested that the bilingual education which admitted a sign language as deaf children's mother tongue and introduced a sign language in the education of deaf children as priority, can be useful. And it may be found that hearing family members of deaf children need sign language education program for long time to communicate with deaf children smoothly.