Web-Based Googling Techniques and Strategic-Interactive Writing Instruction: A Study of Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Students’ L2 Writing Performance

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Asma  Qoreishi Kolaqani ¹ (English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran)
Hossein  Vahid Dastjerdi ² (English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran)
Hadi  Salehi ³ (English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran)
Omid  Tabatabaei ⁴ (English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran)

Received: 2021-11-15 Accepted : 2022-01-01 Published : 2022-07-01

Keywords: writing performance, Googling Techniques (GT), Strategic Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI), Deaf and Hearing-Impaired (DHI), Web-based, Technology,

Abstract :

This study investigated the impact of web-based instruction Googling techniques (GT) and strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) on the L2 writing performance of deaf and hearing-impaired (DHI) Iranian learners. To this end, 60 Iranian male and female DHI students at the elementary level participated in the study. The participants were divided into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group benefited from two particular instructional focuses of this study: GT and SIWI. In order to assess the effect of the treatment, a pre-test and post-test design was utilized and the obtained results were statistically analyzed. The findings revealed that online strategy-based instruction could positively affect the writing performance of Iranian DHI learners. The findings can have pedagogical implications for material practitioners, CALL package designers, and distance teaching planners to include strategy instruction in English courses for the DHI population.

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