Abstract
This study intends to identify the perceptions of the undergraduate students of Special Education towards the use of application mobile in teaching and learning the sign language. This study involved the perception of 200 undergraduate students of Special Education from 3 particular public universities. All 3 public universities offer both Special Education and the sign language course which are compulsory for the students. This study was conducted by distributing the questionnaire that consists of students’ background and demography, also the students’ readiness towards the use of application mobile in teaching and learning the sign language. The data was then analyzed using Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. The findings have gathered that majority of the students have high readiness and interest towards the use of application mobile in teaching and learning the sign language with the overall mean of 4.65 and standard deviation of 0.364. The overall mean has shown that the use of application mobile is preferred by majority of the students. In conclusion, it is obvious that students are ready to use technology involved materials in the teaching and learning the sign language.
Highlights
Sign language is one of the forms of communication used by the hearing-impaired people
This study intends to identify the perceptions of the undergraduate students of Special Education towards the use of application mobile in teaching and learning the sign language
There are two sections that students need to fill in: part A is the demographics of the respondents and part B is the students' perspective on the use of application mobile in teaching and learning sign language
Summary
Sign language is one of the forms of communication used by the hearing-impaired people. Sign language can be used by the disable people who have trouble speaking or mute, the people who cannot learn through verbal and the people who cannot listen well (Wilbur, 2013 ; Lieberman et al, 2014). According to Mahbob and Ibrahim (2017), non-verbal communication is one of the ways to convey message or information to other people using signs or signals instead of using words. The use of sign language is able to give hearing impaired people the chance to express their feelings, opinions, and ideas. Sign language has its own grammar and the development of sign language is developed according to the environment, habits and the practiced culture (William et al, 2005; Loughran, 2013)
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