TY - GEN
T1 - Design, implementation and evaluation of a technical platform that supports spanish speaking children with intellectual disabilities learn english as a second language
AU - Rojas, Luis
AU - Sorbello, Katrina
AU - Contreras, Patricia
AU - Calderon, Juan Felipe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Recent Chilean legislation established a curriculum focused on children with cognitive deficits, adapting the original English curriculum to a specialized one that can be used in Special Education Needs (SEN) schools. However, currently, Chilean SEN schools are not making use of these methods to support students to learn a new language such as English. Furthermore, the research of similar mobile applications available indicated a focus on native English speaking children with intellectual disabilities, however, did not support Spanish speaking children. Therefore, this study was created to observe the impact of mobile activities in English language instruction in the setting of a Chilean SEN school. The proposed solution was designed, developed, and implemented in conjunction with specialist teachers. Prototypes of the mobile application were installed on tablets specifically for this study and deployed in an experimental group. Students were assigned to two groups, control and experimental, where the same pre and post-tests were conducted. This included activities such as writing an English word from the image displayed, matching an image with the associated English word, and completing the missing letters of an English word (which was proven to be the most difficult activity). This experiment resulted in a significant impact on the learning achieved in the experimental group. The Cohen D resulted in 0.92 with a p-value of <0.001. Furthermore, the analysis of the standard deviation of time usage in each activity provided insights into the difficulty levels supporting modifications of future activities.
AB - Recent Chilean legislation established a curriculum focused on children with cognitive deficits, adapting the original English curriculum to a specialized one that can be used in Special Education Needs (SEN) schools. However, currently, Chilean SEN schools are not making use of these methods to support students to learn a new language such as English. Furthermore, the research of similar mobile applications available indicated a focus on native English speaking children with intellectual disabilities, however, did not support Spanish speaking children. Therefore, this study was created to observe the impact of mobile activities in English language instruction in the setting of a Chilean SEN school. The proposed solution was designed, developed, and implemented in conjunction with specialist teachers. Prototypes of the mobile application were installed on tablets specifically for this study and deployed in an experimental group. Students were assigned to two groups, control and experimental, where the same pre and post-tests were conducted. This included activities such as writing an English word from the image displayed, matching an image with the associated English word, and completing the missing letters of an English word (which was proven to be the most difficult activity). This experiment resulted in a significant impact on the learning achieved in the experimental group. The Cohen D resulted in 0.92 with a p-value of <0.001. Furthermore, the analysis of the standard deviation of time usage in each activity provided insights into the difficulty levels supporting modifications of future activities.
KW - Intellectual disabilities
KW - Learn english
KW - Second language
KW - Special Education Needs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120085486&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-77685-5_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-77685-5_21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85120085486
SN - 9783030776848
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 257
EP - 269
BT - Social Computing and Social Media
A2 - Meiselwitz, Gabriele
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 13th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021
Y2 - 24 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -
