聾童的閱讀歷程

Toward an Understanding of Deafness and Reading

聾童之閱讀理解及文字表達能力一直是聾童回歸主流教育主要目標之一。在簡要地介紹所謂“聾”（deafness）之後，本篇文章指出美國聾生之閱讀歷程與聽力正常學生在“質”的方面是一樣。同時，文中並提出美國聾生之閱讀歷程是「由下而上」認知運作與「由上而下」的認知運作之互動模式。文末，針對，學生英語閱讀技能之指導，做了幾項建議。

In the education of deaf children and adolescents, one of the most important goals is the dovelopment of adequate reading and writing skills in the language of mainstream society. After briefly describing the term deafness, this article demonstrates that the reading process of deaf children is qualitatively similar to that of hearing children. In addition, it is argued that reading is an interactive process, based on the synthesis of major, common elements across reading comprehension theories. Finally, the article offers implications for teaching English reading skills to deaf children.