Integrated spoken and written English instruction for the hearing-impaired student.
This study was designed to investigate the effect of integrated instruction in both spoken and written English on oral expression of hearing-impaired persons. Twenty-five hearing-impaired young adults were enrolled in English courses that focused on reading and writing skills only (control group) or on reading, writing, and complementary oral language instruction (experimental group). The experimental group demonstrated significant improvement in grammatical correctness of spoken English and in speech intelligibility, while the control group failed to demonstrate a significant improvement in these areas.
D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D007808:Language Therapy; D008037:Linguistics; D011932:Reading; D012073:Remedial Teaching; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D014956:Writing