Exploring the Potential Usage of Mobile Technologies Among the Hearing-Impaired Students in Learning English as a Second Language (ESL)

Syar Meeze Mohd Rashid,Melor Md Yunus,Harwati Hashim,Nur Ain Mat Nasir

doi:10.3991/ijim.v15i19.22137

Abstract

<p>With the emergence of mobile technologies in education, the special needs students are gaining the infinite benefits that could enhance their learning sessions. Numerous studies are conducted on the usage of mobile technologies among the special needs students including their acceptance towards the technologies, its advantages as well as the obstacles on the utilisation of mobile technologies. However, fewer studies are done on the usage of mobile technologies among the hearing-impaired (HI) students. There is a need for more studies on that as the number of hearing-impaired people are increasing continuously around the globe. Hence, the aims of the study are to explore the hearing-impaired students’ perspectives on the usa of mobile technologies in learning ESL. In-depth interviews are conducted among the selected ten hearing-impaired students from four different secondary schools in Malaysia and the notable finding demonstrates the majority of them believed that mobile technologies assist them in learning. This study provides the insights for the education stakeholders, especially the policy makers and inventors to create the solutions and improvise the features of mobile technologies that are more user-friendly towards the hearing-impaired students.</p>

Highlights

Mobile technologies have permeated in today’s education [1] and become one of the crucial elements that accelerates the performances of the students and boosting the instructional design to be more engaging and meaningful [2]
The purpose of current research is to explore the potential usage of mobile technologies among the HI students in learning ESL
Based on the main finding, mobile technologies demonstrate the huge potential in assisting the HI students learning ESL

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Mobile technologies have permeated in today’s education [1] and become one of the crucial elements that accelerates the performances of the students and boosting the instructional design to be more engaging and meaningful [2]. With the increasing number of hearing-impaired (HI) people around the world, mobile technologies have been identified as the assistive technologies that aids in their learning and daily life [4]. [7] create the mobile applications for the hearing-impaired to learn the basic mathematical concept for the hearing-impaired students. It improves the students’ performances in Mathematics. Mobile technologies have been seen as the tools that creates excitement in the classroom and increase the students’ engagement towards the lesson. [8]

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