The design and evaluation of an interactive multimedia program for promoting deaf learners' reading skills

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Author list: Plaewfueang K., Suksakulchai S.

Publisher: Inderscience

Publication year: 2020

Journal: International Journal of Innovation and Learning (1471-8197)

Volume number: 28

Issue number: 3

Start page: 277

End page: 296

Number of pages: 20

ISSN: 1471-8197

eISSN: 1741-8089

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092268187&doi=10.1504%2fIJIL.2020.109837&partnerID=40&md5=2cdf771e81a9e2398eb5657e8b522c3b

Languages: English-United States (EN-US)

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Abstract

Deaf children have difficulties to remember things through vision. The study aimed to design and evaluate learning through reading conceptual framework by multimedia stories. The subjects are 16 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, aged 10 to14, from two elementary schools for the deaf in Thailand. The reading experienced with experimental multimedia and the control (teachers without multimedia) groups were designed and conducted over a 20-week period in each school. The evaluation was conducted including the observation, interviews with instructors, DHH and DHH' parents. There was a significant increase in vocabulary learning skills of the DHH children in the experimental group (Z = 2.53*, Z = 2.53*) and a non-significant effect in the control group (Z = 1.58*, Z = -2.38*). The result shows that DHH in the experimental perception with words and sentences, while in the class DHH ability for learning and concentrating on multimedia will be till the end. Copyright © 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Keywords

Design visual content, Human user interface, Interactive multimedia program, Reading skill for DHH