Abstract
Pragmatic impairment is the main cause of communication difficulties in hearing-impaired children and it is obvious that there should be a way to assess their difficulties in order to find out suitable teaching strategies to teach them pragmatic skills as well. It seems pre-school children need to get familiar with these skills to communicate in a reasonable manner. But, most of the pragmatic assessment tests are in forms of checklists that should be filled by their parents or clients and of course, they are not a reliable way to do such an important issue. So, the authors of the present article aimed to work on a pragmatic assessment questionnaire to observe children in a real context and examine their pragmatic abilities to find out their difficulties. Â Â Â
Highlights
Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context (Yule, 2000) and people communicating in a society analyze the real meaning of their utterances and are aware of ‘speaker’s intended meaning ‘as Yule (2000) claimed
It is clear that these meanings express between speaker and listener, so it seems hearing-impaired people face some difficulties understanding and interpreting what people mean in a particular context (2000b)
It is believed that pragmatic impairment is the main cause of communication difficulties in hearing-impaired ones (Salehi, Shirazi, Darui, & Dolatshahi, 2013) so, it better to find out these difficulties as soon as it is possible and teach them with the scientific strategies in order to conquer this big obstacle in the way of their communication
Summary
It is aimed to create a new and different questionnaire to observe children in a real context and examine their pragmatics abilities to find out their difficulties. The present questionnaire (this questionnaire is inspired by the work of (Roth & Speckman, 1984) is assessed the speech act production (request, complain, refusal and denial) and politeness of pre-school aged 4-6 hearing impaired and their hearing peers. It is a comparison between these two group to know if it is the matter of hearing-loss of these children that they face difficulty in their daily communication or no. This questionnaire will be presented and explained
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