URDANETA CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS & LANGUAGES URDANETA CITY

RESEARCH WORK

Requirements for the subject: ENGLISH 2 (Communication skills II)

TITLE: Facilitative Teaching Strategies for Hearing Impaired Pupils

Submitted by: JANE CARLA A. JACINTO Student

Submitted to: MS. GEMMA BALTAZAR Instructor

CHAPTER I

Background of the study Hearing impairment and deafness are serious disabilities that can impose a heavy social and economic burden on individuals, families, communities, and countries. Children with hearing impairment often experience delayed development of speech, language and cognitive skills, which may result in slow learning difficulty progressing in school. These children may suffer from stigma and isolation as a result of hearing impairment. Hearing loss manifests itself in several ways. Most significantly, because consonants are spoken at higher frequencies and softer volume, and vowels at lower frequencies and louder volumes, a hearing impaired person will have a more difficult time hearing consonants spoken in normal conversation. The effects of hearing loss can be severe, often dramatically changing affected persons lifestyle. In children, hearing loss may negatively affect the ability to learn, the development of communication skills, and the ability to interact with other.

Over time, the average hearing impaired pupils shows an ever increasing gap on vocabulary growth, complex sentence comprehension and construction, and in concept formations compared to pupils with normal hearing. Hearing impaired pupils often learn to feign comprehension with the end result being that the pupil does not have optimal learning opportunities. Other problems arise because deafness is an invisible disability. It is easy for teachers to forget about it and treat the pupils as not having disability.

Therefore, there is a need for facilitative teaching strategies for hearing impaired pupils which are primarily concerned with various aspects of communication. These facilitative teaching strategies help the hearing impaired students adjust to their impairment.

This is supported by the Montana State University which said that the fundamental importance of teaching strategies is to make it easier to implement a variety of teaching methods and techniques. There is variety of teaching strategies to help students take more responsibility for their own learning and enhance the process of teaching for learning. Teachers must create learning environments that are more interactive, to integrate technology where applicable into the learning experience, and to use collaborative learning strategies when appropriate.

Statement of the problem

The study determined the facilitative teaching strategies for hearing impaired pupils.

Specifically, the study sought to answer the following questions:

1. What is the profile of the hearing impaired pupils in terms of: a. Age b. Gender 2. What is the level of effectivity of various facilitative teaching strategies as assessed by the respondents?

3. What is the teachers frequency of use of the facilitative teaching strategies for hearing impaired pupils? 4. What is the availability of the equipment used in teaching hearing impaired pupils in the school as follows: a. Auditory materials b. Visual materials 5. What is the teachers frequency of use of the equipments used in teaching hearing impaired pupils?

Hypothesis

The following are the assumptions of the study:

1. Through the facilitative teaching strategies, hearing impaired pupils can maximize their learning ability. 2. Teacher of the hearing impaired pupils will have more appropriate strategies in teaching her pupils. 3. The impaired pupils may develop their hidden talents because of the strategies of the teacher. 4. Because of the strategies, the teacher might not be irritated because her students are impaired, she will just treat them like normal. 5. The pupils may be as intelligent like the other pupils who are normal.

Objectives of the study

The objective of the study is to expand the knowledge of the teachers in teaching impaired pupils and also the parents of the impaired pupils. This is to not just let their child stay at home. This is all about on how the pupils learn the lesson without hesitation and more questions. To have each of the hearing impaired pupils have the knowledge that they must have.

Scope and Delimitation of the study

This study focused on the facilitative teaching strategies for hearing impaired pupils her in Pangasinan. The respondents were hearing impaired pupils. One of the school who is teaching hearing impaired pupils here in Urdaneta is the Urdaneta I Central School.

The strategies may help the teachers to teach the lesson clearly to the pupils.

Significance of the Study

The findings of the study would benefit the following:

DepEd. This study will serve as an eye opener for the DepEd officials to provide the facilities which are needed by the school for better learning of the hearing impaired pupils.

Hearing Impaired Pupils. This study will be used as basis for their normal adjustments and determination to study their lessons despite of having a disability.

Parents. The results of this study may orient parents of the impaired children in proper child training and responsible parenting. They will have ideas on how to facilitate teaching their children when at home.

Teachers. Will be provided with proper strategies in presenting lessons and utilizing some instructional materials for effective teaching to hearing impaired pupils.

CHAPTER II

Discussion of the problem

Hearing impaired pupils must be also prioritized because they are also created by God. They must have this Special Education to improve and enhance their knowledge even though they cannot hear. There are a lot of good effects of this case because many of the children will be benefited but the question is, is there a teacher who is/are willing to teach the pupils? There are many students now who is suffering hearing loss because of the changing lifestyle. Some teachers now are hot headed, they dont have this patience in teaching specially in the case of impaired pupils. They just teach and teach and teach until the lesson is done and they dont care if the child understand the lesson or not.

There are also impaired pupils who is not paying attention to the teacher when discussing. They just play. Some schools dont have a nice facility because of lack of money and also they dont give more attention to this. They think that impaired pupils are useless.

Here are some strategies to teach the hearing impaired pupils: Instructional strategies designed to help the talker know how to deliver the message in the best possible way.

Message-tailoring strategies changes in how the message is delivered to optimized the chances the message will be understood by the child.

Constructive strategies designed to modify the environment to be more conducive to communication.

Attending strategies focus efforts by the patient to succeed in obtaining the message. Anticipatory strategies preparing to understand based on context or experiences.

Definition of Terms

The following terms are defined as they are used in the study:

Teaching Strategies. This refers to the use of facilitative methods in assessing development in speech, language and cognitive skills of the individual student.

Hearing impaired. These are children who have hearing disability.

Auditory Materials. These are materials which focus on the sense of hearing.

Visual materials. These are materials which focus on the sense of sight of the hearing impaired pupils.

Special Education. A set of educational, exceptional children such as the hearing impaired enrolled in this program. This is an educational program that gives the needs of exceptional children such as the hearing impaired.

CHAPTER III

Summary

Pupils with hearing impairment has a delayed improvement in all activities like the normal children can do. When they grow up they may suffer a lot of problems like bully. The effects of hearing loss is because of the change of the lifestyle of a person or it might be inborn. Hearing impaired pupils might be late in all things. He/she might not easily learn the things around him, because deafness is an invisible disability. Therefore, there is a need for a teaching strategies for hearing impaired pupils. This strategies may help the teacher to not getting mad to the student and also to the impaired pupil to learn easily and understand the lesson very well. This strategies are supported by the Montana State University which said that it is much easier for the both students and teachers to teach and learn the lesson well.

Conclusion

Therefore to conclude that having strategies in teaching impaired pupils is easier. All they need is patience. When(pupils) they have knowledge they are much approachable. Having the strategies can help the students to understand the lesson vey well.

Recommendation

The DepEd should give each of the school here in the Philippines a Special Education for impaired children and also must give more knowledge to the teachers on how to teach those impaired pupils so that the hearing impaired pupils will not feel that they are not out of place here in the world.

References:

http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjbl/ar/SectionOne.htm

http://www.montana.edu/teachlearn/Papers/teachingstrategies.html,2006