Abstract

RINCON-BUSTOS, Martha Lucia et al. How reading comprehension in deaf students is facilitated by the use of information and communication technologies?. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2015, vol.63, suppl.1, pp.83-91. ISSN 0120-0011.  https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v63n3sup.50570.

Background. The skills of deaf people in reading comprehension processes are weak due to elements related to the own processes of the late acquisition of the Sign Language. Objective. To identify, analyze and reflect on the usefulness of the use of communication and information technologies (TIC) in the processes of reading comprehension of deaf subjects, characterized by being a bilingual competition between L1 (Colombian sign language) and L2 (Spanish written). Materials and Methods. Action research like study carried out in a private educational institution in the city of Bogota, where the performance of five deaf students in reading comprehension skills in L2 was analyzed through the use of TIC. Results. Each of the subjects increased their skills in reading comprehension; the percentage increase was heterogeneous in both the text initial performances and the surface text, while the base, the model and the situation in each individual were also different. Similarly by comparing the results obtained by the test subjects in Saber 11 test, language component, to those obtained in previous years, a significant increase was observed in the scores of the students who participated in the reading comprehension program through the use of TIC. Conclusions. The ICT streamlines the reading process by providing tools that incorporate and integrate the use of all sensory resources, which facilitates and integrates the graphic text information with visual-spatial processing codes and visual-constructional codes inherent to the mechanisms of deaf people information processing deaf, providing flexibility and cognitive modifiability and increasing the use of metacognitive strategies for solving problems.

Keywords : Reading; Deaf Persons; Bilingualism.

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