DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY MEMORIZATION USING MULTIMEDIA FOR HEARING LMPAIRED CHILDREN, PRATOM SUKSA 2, ANUSAN SUNTHON SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

Abstract

This research aimed 1) to establish and determine the effectiveness of multimedia in developing English vocabulary memorization for children with hearing impairments in Pratom Suksa 2, Anusan Sunthon School for the Deaf 2) to improve English vocabulary memorization by using effective multimedia for children with hearing impairments in Pratom Suksa 2, Anusan Sunthon School for the Deaf. The population included 11 children with hearing impairments in Pratom Suksa 2, Anusan Sunthon School for the Deaf, in second semester, academic year 2023. The tools used in this research were multimedia on fruit vocabulary and color vocabulary. The tools used in the data collection were 20 vocabulary learning achievement tests. The statistics used in the data analysis were means and standard deviations.

The finding showed that

          1) Multimedia performance on fruit vocabulary and color vocabulary for children with hearing impairments in Pratom Suksa 2 has a concordance index of 0.90 for fruit vocabulary and a concordance index of 0.87 for color vocabulary .

          2) The achievement score after learning with multimedia on fruit vocabulary, and color vocabulary was higher than before learning. The average score before learning was at 7.73, the standard deviations at 1.95 and the average score after learning was at 15.36, the standard deviation was at 1.57, indicating that students had higher learning ability and memorization of English vocabulary after learning than before learning.