Purpose: Cochlear Implant technique helps hearing impaired children to perceive and produce speech and to develop early reading skills. But children with cochlear implant still have problems in reading comprehension. This study aims at investigating t...
Purpose: Cochlear Implant technique helps hearing impaired children to perceive and produce speech and to develop early reading skills. But children with cochlear implant still have problems in reading comprehension. This study aims at investigating the reason why children with cochlear implant have trouble understanding what they read., examining the use of morphosyntactic strategy, especially postpositional particle strategy which has important role in Korea sentence. Methods: The study has collected 6 children with cochlear implant and 13 normal hearing children who attend elementary schools in Seoul or Gyeonggi-do. Their chronological age had no statistically significant difference. Reading comprehension strategy questions were used to understand the children’s reading comprehension strategy. The questions were made by the researcher and had four items which were semantically or morphosyntactically manipulated to fill in a blank in a 3 to 4 words–long sentence. The children was told the test was under time limit but there was no actual time limit. Results: In reading comprehension strategy task, there was significant difference of correct answers and ratio of error type. Conclusions: Children with cochlear implant do not fully understand the relation between verb and postpositional particle or among postpositional particles. That is, children with cochlear implant pay less attention to morphosyntactic clue than normal hearing children do.