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Publication Date: 2022-Jun
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How Must a Polygon Be According to Hard of Hearing Students? An Investigation with a Semiotic Approach
Gürefe, Nejla
REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, v11 n2 p180-213 Jun 2022
This study explores how hard of hearing students decided whether the shape was a polygon and which semiotic sources were used when the students engaged in explaining geometrical concepts. It was defined how the students interacted with geometric shapes using semiotic sources and examined how such multimodal interactions with geometric figures displayed their reasoning. The study was a case study and carried out three hard of hearing students. The data was collected through interviews and analyzed with content analysis. It was detected that the students paid attention to edge, angle, and vertex of the shapes in the process of identifying polygon. It was seen that the students used gesture, speech, sign language, inscriptions which are semiotic sources and personal or mathematical definitions to express polygon concept. However, it has been determined that students have some misconceptions in the process of explaining concepts. It is suggested that the words used in the concept definition should be selected carefully by the teachers to teach the concepts correctly and the teachers use hand signs for concepts in their lesson.
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Hearing Impairments, Semiotics, Nonverbal Communication, Sign Language, Misconceptions, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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