Individual difference of strategy for processing sentences and text in children with hearing impairments.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330259
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Tokyo Gakugei University
• Principal Investigator: SAWA Takashi 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 教授 (80272623)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): AIZAWA Hiromitsu 福岡教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70344851) ; HAYASHIDA Masashi 広島大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 准教授 (00467755) ; CHONAN Hirohito 筑波技術大学, 障害者高等教育研究支援センター, 准教授 (70364130)
• Research Collaborator: HAMADA Toyohiko ; OSHIKA Aya ; INABA Keita ; NAGAHAMA Keigo ; SHIRAISHI Kento ; SAWADA Mizuki ; AKAHANE Saori
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 聴覚障害 / 文理解 / 構文 / 文章読解 / 眼球運動 / 視線解析 / 聾学校

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was examine the individual difference of strategy for processing the sentence and text in children with hearing impairments. In this study, we adopted the method of measurement of the reading time and the eye movement during their reading. As a result of some experiments, we obtained the following results: (1) Word order and semantic plausibility influenced the processing of Japanese active and passive voice sentences. (2)Some children with hearing impairments used original understanding strategies based on the word order or semantic plausibility. (3) The pattern of eye movement of deaf participants varies with each individual. (4)Difference of reading abilities influenced speed of reading text which require inference for understanding. From these results suggested that the on-line method was effective to examine the feature of reading in children with hearing impairments.

Free Research Field

聴覚障害心理学