Effectiveness of Oral Repeated Reading With Autistic Language Learners

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of oral repeated reading on children with autism while teaching English. Its findings might serve as a basis for the development of reading instructional materials in English and help English teachers prepare related lesson plans for such impaired students. Every day the number of people with ASD is increasing and what’s more, most of them should go on studying with their disabled peers in public schools. The researcher only ventured to study 3 male student respondents enrolled in a Primary School in Turkey who were medically diagnosed with autism with speech disfluencies and learning / reading comprehension problems. The researcher combined Dolch Sight Word Test and the Woodcock – Johnson Test to measure their reading and learning abilities. It was aimed to evaluate students’ cognitive processes as well as their reading performance. The results were calculated by the Word Recognition (WR) test formula and displayed on tables. Finally, to determine CWA’s reading levels Gickling and Armstrong measuring technique was used. Test results of the study showed that oral repeated reading technique can be effectively used with such children to increase their reading fluency and comprehension of the vocabulary in English and as an intervention to increase overall fluency.

Keywords

• CWA,Oral Reading Repetition,Reading Fluency,Language Learning

Sözlü Tekrar Eden Okumaların Dil Öğrenen Otizimli Çocuklarda Etkileri

Abstract

Çalışma, otizmli çocuklara İngilizce öğretirken sözlü tekrarlarla yapılan okumanın onların İngilizce öğrenmedeki faydasını ve bu bulgular sayesinde İngilizce öğretim materyalleri geliştirilerek İngilizce öğretmenlerinin ders planları oluşturabilmesine katkı sağlamak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Her geçen gün Otizm Spektrum Bozukluğu olan kişilerin sayısı artmakta ve dahası, bu bireylerin pek çoğu devlet okullarında normal öğrencilerle okumaya devam etmek durumundadırlar. Bu çalışma, Türkiye’de bir ilkokulda okuyan, doktorlar tarafından hafif otizm teşhisi konulmuş ama konuşma – okuma bozukluğu çeken 3 erkek öğrenci ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu öğrenciler çocuk doktoru tarafından hafif-orta derece otizm’li olarak tanılanmış ve yaşları sırasıyla 8, 9 ve 8 şeklindedir. Araştırmacı; Dolch Side Word Testini ve Woodcock – Jonhson testini bu Otizmli öğrencilerin, okuma ve öğrenme becerilerini ölçmek için bir araya getirdi. Burada öğrencilerin okuma performansı ile aynı zamanda bilişsel süreçlerinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Sonuçlar Word Recognition (WR) ile formüle edilerek tablolaştırılmıştır. Son olarak Otizmli öğrencilerin, öğrenme düzeylerini tanılamak için Gickling ve Armstrong tanılama tekniği kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın sonuçları, sözlü tekrarlanan okumaların, otizmli öğrencilere belirli bir metinde İngilizce akıcılık ve kavrama yeteneğini ve İngilizce'de genel akıcılık ve anlama becerisini arttırmada etkili bir yöntem olarak kullanılabileceğini göstermiştir.

Keywords

• Otizmli Çocuklar,Sözlü Okuma Tekrarları,Okumada Akıcılık,Dil Öğrenme

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