ENHANCING VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT AND READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH DRILLING AND CONSISTENT EXPOSURE

Abstract

Drilling and consistent exposure of target words have normally helped in developing children‟s vocabulary. Still, such method is common and has positive impact on normal hearing students. For hearing loss students, many believe that vocabulary development is not an easy task to achieve as they seem to find it difficult in retaining information for a longer period of time. According to Isakovic and Kovacevic (2015), hearing loss students have „great difficulties in understanding written…words‟ especially as their „first and primary language‟ is sign language. This study looked into the impact of drilling and consistent exposure of target words on semester 3 graphic students with hearing loss. The outcome seemed to be rather unexpected. Out of seven students being tested, only three did not seem to do well. Thus, the study shows that drilling and consistent exposure teaching method, in the form of “follow-in, labelling strategy” (Lund and Douglas, 2016) could be helpful to some students with hearing loss.