Journal of English Language Teaching

Teaching Writing to Hearing Impaired Students: Interactive Writing as an Instructional Approach

Bhavna Bajarh

PhD Research Scholar, Dept of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University. Chandigarh

Keywords: Interactive Writing, Writing skills of Hearing-Impaired, eaching writing skills in English.

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Abstract

The study presents a qualitative analysis of Hearing Impaired (H/I) Students’ writing development during a ten-week period (spread over a semester) of interactive writing instruction. The intervention involved teaching English writing skills through an Interactive Writing (IW) approach. The participants in this study included 25 H/I students at high school level. This paper reports the findings of a pre-post experimental design based study with 50 H/I students divided into experimental and control groups. The paper only deals with the qualitative analysis of the writing development of the experimental group.

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