Abstract: The purpose of the study is to determine the perceived abilities of English language teachers towards teaching hearing impaired in inclusive educational settings. A group of 184 English language teachers were selected randomly from the upper primary mainstream teachers’ population, who are teaching in Puducherry schools. Survey research design was used to determine the perceived abilities of English language teachers towards teaching hearing impaired in mainstream schools, using the researcher developed perceived abilities towards teaching hearing impaired scale with 5 items to assess perceived abilities towards teaching hearing impaired. Reliability of the scale in terms of Cronbach alpha for the scale was found to be 0.87. Independent t test and F test (One-Way ANOVA) was used to quantitatively analyse the perceived abilities towards teaching hearing impaired. The findings of the study indicates that the teachers in the mainstream education fully acknowledge the inclusion process of hearing impaired as well as they equipped themselves to teach hearing impaired students and also revealed that English language teachers with experience in teaching hearing impaired have higher abilities in order to teach hearing impaired students in inclusive educational settings. This study suggested that the teachers should be given opportunity to undergo pre-service and in service training to teach hearing impaired to manage and to provide effective and quality teaching to hearing impaired in inclusive educational settings.
Keywords: Hearing Impaired, Perceived Ability and English Language Teacher.
Title: PERCEIVED ABILITIES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS TOWARDS TEACHING HEARING IMPAIRED
Author: VIDHYANATHAN. S
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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