Strategies Used in Teaching Written English Language to Learners with Hearing Impairment: A Case of Njia Special School in Meru County, Kenya.

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dc.contributor.authorPatrick, Chabari
dc.contributor.authorAwori, Beatrice Bunyasi
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-04T10:01:19Z
dc.date.available2018-04-04T10:01:19Z
dc.date.issued2017-12
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractIn schools, learners with Hearing Impairment (HI) are often exposed to American Sign Language (ASL), while also developing literacy skills in English. ASL does not have a written form, but is a fully accessible language to the learners with HI through which is possible to mediate understanding, draw on prior experiences, and engage critical thinking and reasoning. The results of Kenya Certificate Primary Education conducted by Kenya National Examination Council in Kenya since the year 2010 showed that learners with hearing impairment at Njia Special School performed poorly in English Language. The purpose of this study was to establish strategies used in teaching written English to learners with at Njia Special School. A descriptive survey design was used in this study. A sample of 5 English language teachers, 8 learners with HI and one head teacher were involved in this study. Data was collected using questionnaires, observation schedules and interview schedules. The data was analyzed majorly using excel, a computer program that makes number manipulation easy. Qualitative data was presented in narrative form. It was established that teachers did not have good knowledge of strategies and projects that could be used to improve writing among learners with hearing impairment. Instead they used teaching of ne words and using them in sentences, copying sentences and continuous writing that was not done frequently. This could not bring learners up to the desired level of writing. The study recommends that; teachers for learners with hearing impairment should be frequently inducted on strategies for teaching writing, teachers for learners with hearing impairment should be fully exposed to ways of identifying learners with writing difficulties, the school administration should ensure that learners with hearing impairment are given adequate writing practices, learners should be exposed to Kenyan Sign Language structures early enough and English language teachers should constantly evaluate the effectiveness of their remedial programs.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2411-5681
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/18294
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherContemporary Research Centeren_US
dc.subjectHearing Impairmenten_US
dc.subjectstrategiesen_US
dc.subjectLiteracyen_US
dc.subjectWriting Difficultiesen_US
dc.subjectWritten Languageen_US
dc.titleStrategies Used in Teaching Written English Language to Learners with Hearing Impairment: A Case of Njia Special School in Meru County, Kenya.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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