Teaching phonological awareness skill to students with hearing impairment: Current perspectives

Abstract

This study deals with the current debate whether teaching phonological awareness skill to the hearing impaired students would be helpful for the reading comprehension. Purpose of this study is to present the theoretical grounds of teaching phonological awareness skill to the hearing impaired students. This study was done by a literature analysis based on a recent cognitive reading mechanism, the duel route cascade model of reading. This research explained why teaching phonological awareness skill to the hearing impaired students would be an effective method to building their reading comprehension.