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hearing impairment especially in the classroom activities. The purpose of the study is to find out the EFL classroom activities used by the teacher including
the teacher’s considerations and the challenges faced by the teacher in designing and implementing
the activities.
1.2 Research Questions
This study attempts to answer the following questions: 1.
What EFL classroom activities are applied by the teachers for 8
th
grade students?
2. What are the teacher’s considerations in designing and implementing the EFL
classroom activities for children with hearing impairment? 3.
What are the challenges faced by the teacher in designing EFL classroom activities for children with hearing impairment?
1.3 The aims of the research
Essentially, this research is conducted to find out the portrait of teaching English for children with hearing impairment. The aims of this research are:
1. To identify and describe the EFL classroom activities applied by the teacher
for 8
th
students.
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2. To describe the teacher’s considerations in designing and implementing the
EFL classroom activities for children with hearing impairment. 3.
To describe the challenges faced by the teacher in developing EFL classroom activities for children with hearing impairment.
1.4 Significance of the research
This study is expected to provide theoretical, practical, and professional benefits. Theoretically, the research findings can be used to enrich the theories and
methods in teaching English to children with hearing impairment, especially in designing classroom activities.
Practically, the research findings will be beneficially useful for the readers who are interested in teaching EFL to children with hearing impairment, especially in
designing classroom activities. For the professional benefits, the findings can be used as a consideration for
the school or teacher of children with hearing impairment to improve the teaching EFL for children with hearing impairment, especially in designing the classroom
activities. 1.5 Scope of the research
This study limits the investigation into three concerns; 1 the classroom activities used by the teacher in teaching EFL to children with hearing impairment,
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2 the teacher’s consideration in designing and implementing the EFL classroom
activities for children with hearing impairment, 3 the challenges faced by the teacher in designing EFL classroom activities for children with hearing impairment.
1.6 Clarification of terms
