Effects Of Presentation Modes On The Learning Of Sign Language Among Hearing Impaired Students With Different Cognitive Styles
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2016-08
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V. V. Menon, V. Chadra Shakaran
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This quantitative study investigated the effects of presentation modes on the
learning of sign language among 147 hearing impaired students in special education
primary schools for the hearing impaired in Malaysia. This study consists of two
parts, namely, development and evaluation. A 2 x 3 quasi-experimental factorial
design with repeated measure for the moderator variable in a non-equivalent control
group pretest-posttest design was adopted in this study. The independent variables
are the three presentation modes of the courseware namely Sign Language Video,
Text and Image (SLTI), Sign Language Video and Text (SLT) and Sign Language
Video and Image (SLI). The moderator variable is the different cognitive styles (FD
and FI). The dependent variable is the students' achievement scores as measured by
the posttest scores. In the first part, the presentation modes were designed and
developed. In the second part, this study investigated the effects of the three
presentation modes on hearing impaired students of different cognitive styles.
ANOVA and ANCOVA analyses were conducted to test the null hypotheses in this
study. The results revealed the hearing impaired students attained significant
difference in the mean achievement scores in the three presentation modes. The
hearing impaired students using the SLTI mode attained the highest mean
achievement score. The study also revealed that there was no significant difference
among the mean achievement scores attained by hearing impaired students with
different cognitive styles among the three presentation modes. It also showed that
there were no significant interaction effect among the presentation modes and
cognitive styles. In conclusion, this study indicated that the SLTI mode consists of
sign language video, text and image is most effective in the learning of sign
language.
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The effects of presentation modes on the learning of sign language among , hearing impaired students in special education primary schools.