Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the latest trends in mobile technologies used in the education of the hearing impaired. Technology integration studies in the literature generally focus on visual dictionaries, sign language, word exercises or story books. In addition, it is seen that the studies report the results, not the process. However, there are few studies that describe the holistic technology integration process with a holistic approach. The study was conducted using qualitative research methodology, document analysis and related content analysis. Working with the keywords "mobile technology and hearing impaired" in Web of Science database is based on the analysis of published documents. All articles published in Web of Science have been examined. Affiliated universities of the distribution, subject areas, document types, country / regions and author themes by years were examined. Various findings reveal in terms of determining the importance of the analysis of the studies published in Web of Science database on the hearing impairments through mobile learning in terms of content. A total of 54 studies were analysed. It was concluded that the most studies related to technology were carried out in 2001 and 2019. It turns out that the first study was carried out in 2001.When literature review was done, it was concluded that most studies were conducted in 2019. It was also concluded that the most studies were in the field of Computer Science Theory Methods. It is mostly published as a full text. When looking at the scanning areas in the Web of Science index, it was seen that the most study area is in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science area. When the universities of the researchers were analysed, it was also concluded that the researcher who carried out the most research was from Anadolu University. Although technology is very important in education, the effects of mobile learning on the hearing impaired should be further investigated and results should be shared.
Highlights
Developing information and communication technologies affect the field of education as well as other fields, and change the methods of learning and teaching [12,28]
The analysis revealed that most of the studies regarding the hearing-impaired learning through the mobile teaching method were conducted between 2001 and 2019, where at first the study was conducted in 2001 and further in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2011 no studies were done
Themes were determined as content analysis
Summary
Developing information and communication technologies affect the field of education as well as other fields, and change the methods of learning and teaching [12,28]. Different educational applications such as books and magazines have been replaced by various electronic devices. Developments such as mobile devices, netbooks, smart phones, and increasing internet speeds make it necessary to learn from mobile devices. Technological tools have made it a lot easier to access any kind of information from anywhere, at any time, to follow innovations and continue learning [27,18]. Educational activities carried out with these tools are called mobile learning. Swart and Bus [16] performed metaanalysis of 29 studies, concluding that multimedia story books are more useful than classic (printed) story books [16]
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