A Comparative Analysis of Contracted versus Alphabetical English Braille and Attitudes of English as a Foreign Language Learners: A Case Study of a Farsi-Speaking Visually Impaired Student

Autor/inn/en	Mobaraki, Mohsen; Nazarloo, Saber Atash; Toosheh, Elaheh
Titel	A Comparative Analysis of Contracted versus Alphabetical English Braille and Attitudes of English as a Foreign Language Learners: A Case Study of a Farsi-Speaking Visually Impaired Student
Quelle	In: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 111 (2017) 5, S.471-474 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-482X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; Braille; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Language Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Case Studies; Indo European Languages; Visual Impairments; Alphabets; Language Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Interviews; Reading Fluency; Teaching Methods; Outcomes of Education; Secondary School Students; Reading Tests; Data Analysis; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Indoeuropäisch; Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Buchstabenschrift; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Sekundarschüler; Lesetest; Auswertung
Abstract	In the educational system of Iran, in which English is a foreign language, the duration of primary school is six years. After that, these English as a foreign language students enter high school and start to learn English during an additional six-year period. In years seven and eight, English textbooks are embossed in alphabetic English braille; but, for the next four years, these books are prepared in the contracted form. Visually impaired students in Iran use alphabetic braille to read and write in their own mother tongue (Farsi). Contracted braille is, therefore, a foreign concept to these students. In Iran, the exposure of students who are learning English to contracted braille in high school has affected the reading skills of these students. The present researchers interviewed four teachers regarding the teaching of contracted braille to English as a foreign language visually impaired high school students, and they also made some changes to the curriculum followed by the teachers. Since it is difficult for students to memorize a large amount of contractions quickly, all parties agreed that contracted braille needs to be taught as early as the first year of high school to Farsi-speaking students learning English. The present study aims to scrutinize the effects on reading fluency of learning contracted English braille. To do so, the researchers taught alphabetic and contracted braille to a visually impaired 12-year-old school boy to examine the degree of impact of teaching either of these two codes on his reading fluency. (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01