scholarly journals Bilingualism of Colombian Deaf Children in the Teaching-Learning of Mathematics in the First Year of Elementary School

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Lucía León Corredor ◽  
Dora Inés Calderón

This paper summarizes some results of the first ethnographic research study conducted in Colombia in three different elementary schools for deaf children in which bilingualism (sign-language and written-language) is starting to be emphasized. This study focuses on the teaching of mathematics in classrooms for deaf children using contexts proclaimed as bilingual. The participants in the study were first grade teachers. The analysis presented in this paper illustrates the struggles that teachers experience teaching arithmetic in such a context. The teaching of arithmetic using bilingualism requires three types of semiotic registers: sign-language and written-Spanish, and the Hindu-Arabic numeration system. The analysis indicates some puzzling teaching learning issues interweaving language and mathematics. These issues are of linguistic and communicative, social and cultural, and cognitive and pedagogical nature.

Author(s):  
Franc Solina ◽  
Slavko Krapez ◽  
Ales Jaklic ◽  
Vito Komac

Deaf people, as a marginal community, may have severe problems in communicating with hearing people. Usually, they have a lot of problems even with such—for hearing people—simple tasks as understanding the written language. However, deaf people are very skilled in using a sign language, which is their native language. A sign language is a set of signs or hand gestures. A gesture in a sign language equals a word in a written language. Similarly, a sentence in a written language equals a sequence of gestures in a sign language. In the distant past deaf people were discriminated and believed to be incapable of learning and thinking independently. Only after the year 1500 were the first attempts made to educate deaf children. An important breakthrough was the realization that hearing is not a prerequisite for understanding ideas. One of the most important early educators of the deaf and the first promoter of sign language was Charles Michel De L’Epée (1712-1789) in France. He founded the fist public school for deaf people. His teachings about sign language quickly spread all over the world. Like spoken languages, different sign languages and dialects evolved around the world. According to the National Association of the Deaf, the American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most frequently used language in the United States, after English and Spanish. ASL has more than 4,400 distinct signs. The Slovenian sign language (SSL), which is used in Slovenia and also serves as a case study sign language in this chapter, contains approximately 4,000 different gestures for common words. Signs require one or both hands for signing. Facial expressions which accompany signing are also important since they can modify the basic meaning of a hand gesture. To communicate proper nouns and obscure words, sign languages employ finger spelling. Since the majority of signing is with full words, signed conversation can proceed with the same pace as spoken conversation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Hernando Sanabría-Pérez ◽  
María Eugenia Villamizar-Mendoza

Nowdays the implementation of teaching strategies, incorporating the most well-known Information and Communication Technologies such as ICT in the teaching-learning process have increased in different areas of knowledge, and mathematics is not exception, it allows the strengthening of logical-mathematical thinking in students and it is essential to start from the first grade of the basic primary. Taking in account that ICTs are now part of the daily lives of most of students, it was concluded that by taking advantage of the interest that students have in ICTs today, no matter their age, this interest can be channeled to strengthen logical-mathematical thinking from an early age, as ICTs allow the teaching-learning process to be more enjoyable and participatory, also the process can continue, outside the classroom.


2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Daiane Kipper ◽  
Janete Inês Müller ◽  
Cláudio José de Oliveira

Neste trabalho, estamos interessados em examinar um conjunto de artigos publicados no número noventae um (91) dos Cadernos Cedes, que abordam a aprendizagem de matemática por crianças e adolescentessurdos. Para o exercício analítico, na perspectiva foucaultiana, apoiamo-nos na ferramenta teórico-metodológica doenunciado. Para tal, discutimos o material empírico desta investigação, considerando a metodologia, o referencialteórico e os resultados produzidos pelos autores em seus artigos. O material analisado apresentou aproximaçõesem relação à metodologia das investigações, visto que o desenvolvimento das pesquisas dá-se em ambientes escolares,por meio de atividades com alunos, tendo como foco crianças e adolescentes. Das análises, emergiramenunciados relacionados à aprendizagem matemática por crianças e adolescentes surdos, tais como: as criançassurdas estão atrasadas em relação às ouvintes; a exposição à língua de sinais melhora o desempenho da criançasurda; existem experiências educacionais prévias em contextos informais; a visualidade é fundamental no ensino/aprendizagem da matemática; há uma emergência de criação de sinais nessa área. Nesse sentido, mesmo que aspesquisas sejam desenvolvidas com base em diferentes perspectivas teóricas, são recorrentes os enunciados queposicionam as crianças e jovens surdos como ‘atrasados’ em relação aos ouvintes de mesma faixa etária, e issopor não atenderem a um padrão cultural pré-determinado, sobretudo pela Matemática Escolar da ModernidadePalavras-chave: Educação de surdos. Cadernos Cedes. Matemática. DEAF STUDENTS AND MATHEMATICS LEARNING: statements found in Cadernos CedesAbstract: In this paper, we are interested in examining a group of papers published in Cadernos Cedes numberninety-one (91), which addresses mathematics learning by deaf children and adolescents. For such analytical exercise,grounded on the Foucauldian perspective, we have been supported by the theoretical-methodological tool ofenunciation. We have discussed the empirical material of this investigation by considering the methodology, theoreticalreferences and results produced by the authors in their papers. The analyzed material showed approximations interms of methodology, since the researches were carried out in school settings by means of activities with students,with a focus on children and adolescents. From the analyses, some enunciations related to mathematics learning bydeaf children and adolescents have emerged, such as the following: deaf children lag behind their hearing peers; exposureto sign language improves deaf children’s performance; there are previous educational experiences in informalcontexts; visualization is fundamental in mathematics teaching/learning; there has been an increase in signs inthis area. In this sense, even though the researches were based on different theoretical perspectives, enunciationspositioning deaf children and adolescents as ‘delayed’ in comparison with same-age hearing peers are recurrent,as deaf students do not fit the cultural standard that has been predetermined by School Mathematics in ModernityKeywords: Deaf education. Cadernos Cedes. Mathematics. EL APRENDIZAJE MATEMÁTICO DE SORDOS: enunciados que aparecen en los Cadernos CedesResumen: En este trabajo, estamos interesados en examinar un conjunto de artículos publicados en el númeronoventa y uno (91) de los Cadernos Cedes, que tratan del aprendizaje de matemáticas por niños y adolescentes sordos.Para el ejercicio analítico, en la perspectiva foucaultiana, nos apoyamos en la herramienta teórico metodológicadel enunciado. Para eso, discutimos el material empírico de esta investigación, considerando la metodología,el referencial teórico y los resultados producidos por los autores en sus artículos. El material analizado presentóaproximaciones en relación a la metodología de las investigaciones, ya que el desarrollo de las pesquisas ocurreen ambientes escolares, a través de actividades con alumnos, teniendo como enfoque niños y adolescentes. De losanálisis surgieron enunciados relacionados al aprendizaje matemático por niños y adolescentes sordos, tales como:los niños sordos están retrasados en relación a los oyentes; la exposición a la lengua de señas aumenta el desempeñodel niño sordo; hay un retraso de los estudiantes sordos en matemáticas; existen experiencias educacionalesprevias en contexto informales; la visualidad es fundamental en la enseñanza/aprendizaje de la matemática; hayuna emergencia de creación de señas en esa área. En ese sentido, aunque las pesquisas sean desarrolladas conbase en distintas perspectivas teóricas, son recurrentes los enunciados que posicionan los niños y jóvenes sordoscomo ‘retrasados’ en relación a los oyentes de misma franja etaria; y eso por no hacer parte de un patrón culturalpredeterminado principalmente por la Matemática Escolar de la Modernidad.Palabras clave: Educación de sordos. Cadernos Cedes. Matemáticas.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ririn Ambarini ◽  
Arso Setyaji ◽  
Sri Suneki

Language and Mathematics are both skills and knowledge that need to master well so that it can be the provision for students’ future life when mingling with the community or society. Because of that the integration of teaching both language and Mathematics in bilingual Math learning will give many benefits to the students. They will learn not only how to interact with others by improving their communication skills but also how to develop their Math concepts and skills. Moreover students will also get lots of advantages by learning Mathematics bilingually. This study aimed to find out the development of the students’ English for Math ability in numbers and number sense in which the process of teaching learning is equipped with teaching aids based on local wisdom. The participants were 30 kindergarten students. The study used descriptive qualitative method and the results revealed that the teaching learning activities with teaching aids designed based on local wisdom have a significant effect on the development of both kindergarten students’ performance in English for Math activities and their love toward the local products found in their surrounding environment.


Pedagogika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Viktorija Sičiūnienė ◽  
Nijolė Toleikytė

The article presents the results of the qualitative research on the attitude of teachers towards low-achieving students while teaching reading strategies. Such scientific studies have not been conducted in Lithuania before. This was the first research, which aimed to identify if the teachers allocated attention to low-achieving school learners while reflecting on the process of teaching/ learning reading strategies and the achieved results. The sample of the research included 33 teachers from Lithuanian schools. They were participants in the national project “Learning Teachers – Learning Students” in 2015–2016. For two years it was observed how teachers in cooperating teams learned to apply reading strategies and provided collegial feedback to each other. The authors of the article were experts, who prepared diagnostic tests measuring reading skills, provided recommendations to the teachers how to apply methodology for teaching reading strategies, to measure and analyse reading achievements. The research results revealed that not all the teachers of the Lithuanian language and mathematics repeatedly measured reading skills of their learners. The teachers’ responses show that the total dynamics of results of project schools is evaluated positively but in separate cases it is quite ambiguous. It was noticed that evaluating the dynamics of reading results, the focus is laid more on the average indicator in the class and too little attention is paid to monitoring and analysis of the results of separate learner groups, and on those of low-achieving students in particular, as well as to individual progress of learners. Analysing the teachers’ reflections on how decisions/agreements about application of specific reading strategies are made, it can be stated that collegial feedback, agreements at school level and colleagues support was particularly important to teachers but it lacked a focused orientation, too little attention was dedicated to observation and discussion of practice of reading strategy application.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Tadesse Tedla ◽  
Dawit Negassa

The purpose of this study was to investigate the current experiences of deaf children in upper primary, secondary and preparatory schools in Gondar City Administration, Ethiopia. A phenomenological study design with qualitative inquiry approach was used. The main tool used for the study was a semi-structured interview guide, which was developed out of comprehensive review of literature for data collection. Out of the thirty deaf children in the study (26 children from grades 5 to 8 and four children from grades 9 to 12), nine were selected through purposive and available sampling techniques from upper primary, secondary and preparatory schools respectively. The data collected were thematically analyzed though the academic dimension points. Results indicated that the deaf children were not academically included at par with the other students, though they were able to receive support from their peers and were active participants in extra-curricular activities. The deaf children were found suffering from communication barrier, unsuitable and non-varied teaching methodologies and lower expectations on the ability of the deaf children from side of teachers. And, the children were also challenged with the absence of sig language interpreters in their classes and the current text books which they deaf children used to study are lacking the incorporations of adequate pictures. Recommendations such as sign language training for teachers and peers, recruitment of sign language interpreters, acquisition of suitable teaching-learning materials along with adequate training of teachers in using effective and varied methodologies for deaf children have been forwarded.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 850
Author(s):  
Eleni Bonti ◽  
Afroditi Kamari ◽  
Maria Sofologi ◽  
Sofia Giannoglou ◽  
Georgia-Nektaria Porfyri ◽  
...  

SLI and SLD constitute two independent neurodevelopmental disorders, which frequently cause challenges in the diagnosis process, especially due to their nature. This has caused disagreement among clinicians regarding their recognition as separate or overlapping disorders. The objective of the study was to enlighten the path of valid diagnosis and intervention during adolescence when the two disorders change their manifestation and overlap. Two hundred Greek adolescents (140 boys and 60 girls), 124 already diagnosed with SLD and 76 diagnosed with SLI, 12–16 years old, participated in the study. All participants were assessed in reading, oral and written language and mathematics (mathematical operations and mathematical reasoning) along with IQ testing. In order to determine statistically significant differences, the chi-square test, independent samples t-test, odds ratios and their 95 per cent confidence intervals were implemented. The results revealed that the SLI group presented significantly greater difficulties than SLD in their overall cognitive-mental profile and in most language and mathematical measurements (number concept, executive-procedural part of solving operations and mathematical reasoning). The similarity of the two groups was mainly detected in their deficient metacognitive, metalinguistic and metamnemonic strategies. The research concludes that SLD adolescents managed to overcome their difficulties to a significant degree, while adolescents with SLI still struggle with many learning areas.


Author(s):  
Fernando Martinez-Abad ◽  
Patricia Torrijos-Fincias ◽  
María José Rodríguez-Conde

Even though in the current information-rich environment information skills have become a key competence within school curricula, their transversal, sometimes marginal character is maintained in basic education. This research work intends to facilitate the teachers information-rich environment information skills have become a key competence within school curricula, their transversal, sometimence, understood mainly as the performance in language and mathematics. The sample of the study was composed of 258 secondary education students from Spain, who completed a validated questionnaire that evaluated information skills. The results show a significant positive relationship between information skills and academic performance. The authors conclude by discussing the importance of emphasizing the study of information skills as a factor associated with academic performance, aiming to foster their effective integration in formal teaching-learning processes.


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