Engelsk titel: Teachers' use of assistive listening devices in inclusive schools
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Författare:
Rekkedal, Ann Mette
Email: ann.m.rekkedal@svt.ntnu.no
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 42
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 14103738
Sammanfattning
The objective of this study is to examine factors that can explain teachers' use of assistive
listening devices in inclusive schools for pupils with hearing loss (HL). Assistive listening devices,
such as teacher-microphones and pupil-microphones, can ensure an enhanced listening environment
for such pupils and thus induce a higher level of participation in the teaching. The study included 167
teachers of pupils with HL in fifth through tenth grades. The analyses indicated that factors related to
the teachers, pupils, parents and technology influenced the teachers' use of microphones. Teachers
with positive attitudes toward the microphones tend to integrate them regularly in classroom
communications compared with teachers who are negatively inclined. Frequent use of the
microphones also occurred if pupils had severe HL. Furthermore, parents who tend to be highly
involved in the children's school performance indirectly affected the teachers' microphone use.
Additionally, frequent use of pupil-microphones seems to be dependent of the number of
microphones; a high-density of microphones promoted their use.