Exploring the effects of motivational videos for hearing-impaired children

Abstract

Videos is elaborately designed for certain discipline knowledge and skill development to support varieties of learning. The videos for hearing-impaired children, regards vivid videos as the main carriers which conform to cognitive learning rules of hearing-impaired children. For one thing, it is able to cultivate learning interests along with active learning abilities of hearing-impaired children. For another, it has theoretical significance and application values on the improvement of their learning effect and cognitive learning abilities. This study attempts to employ Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction motivation model for hearing- impaired children, hyperlink technology to design learning contents and presentation of teaching videos, which was called motivational videos. In this study, a quasi- experiment was conducted to examine the effects of hearing-impaired children learning motivation and cognitive attitude of learning environment. This results indicated that the strategies of the videos for the hearing-impaired children could effectively strengthen learning motivation and promote positive learning behavior in hearing-impaired children.