ORAL NARRATIVES OF PERSIAN-SPEAKING HEARING-IMPAIRED STUDENTS IN THE REGULAR SCHOOLS
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Functional linguistics, transitivity system, oral narratives, regular schools, hearing-impaired students
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to survey the oral narratives used by hearing-impaired students of ordinary schools with their hearing counterparts based on the transitivity system. Three types of oral narratives were collected from eighteen hearing impaired students (selected as an available sample) as well as eighteen hearing students. And with regard to the normality of the data in each of the transitivity indicators, data analysis including two-independent samples t-tests and U Mann-Whitney tests was carried out using SPSS-26. Findings revealed in the total three types of narratives, the median difference between the two groups is significant in all transitivity indices (p= 0/024, p=0/022, and p=0/001 for processes (verbs), participants (agent, goal, etc.), and circumstances (place, time, manner, etc.) respectively. The results show that Persian-Speaking students with hearing problems in regular schools perform weaker in the total three types of oral narratives because they are weak at telling personal stories and making up stories, but this have not be seen for story retelling.
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Hayat Ameri
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran; ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-2627-3862, Email: [email protected]
Fariba Noori
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;
Sajad Noorian
Assistant Professor,Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran; ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0924-1674
Ferdows Aghagolzadeh
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8917-6429
Mohammad Dabir Moghaddam
Professor, Linguistics Department, Faculty of Literature & Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran; ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9028-7524