Adamiuk N. The Characteristics of Learning the Ukrainian Sign Language Vocabulary by Deaf Students in Primary School

Українська версія

Thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (CSc)

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0412U006986

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Specialization

  • 13.00.03 - Корекційна педагогіка

26-12-2012

Specialized Academic Board

Д 26.450.01

Mykolа Yarmachenkо Institute of Special Education and Psychology of National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine

Essay

The dissertation research is devoted to the topical issue of exploring the process of how deaf students in primary school learn the Ukrainian Sign Language (USL) vocabulary. An original complex USL program has been developed to be used in teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing students in preparatory classes and Grades 1-12 of specialized comprehensive schools. Based upon this program, the school subject "Ukrainian Sign Language" was introduced. A fundamentally new conceptual and methodology approach has been developed regarding the problem of mastering the Ukrainian Sign Language by deaf students. This approach is regarded as the basic level of forming a linguistic personality in primary school; a linguistic and didactic model of learning the USL lexical units was theoretically described and experimentally introduced. Within a pedagogical experiment, the levels of understanding a sign as a lexical unit among deaf junior students have been tested; the dependency of the level of knowledge and ability to use the USL by primary school deaf students upon the level of sign-lingual communicative competence among sign language teachers has been identified.

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