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Comparison of Pragmatic Skills of Cochlear Implant Users and their Hearing Peers
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| Objective: This project aimed to compare the pragmatic skills of initiation and application of the context of situation across two groups of participants: cochlear implant users and their hearing peers. Pragmatics is the study of speakers' intended meanings and hearers' interpretations in the context of situation. In this research, communicative competence as an ability for properly using language in different social situations was studied. Method: This study was a cross-sectional and quantitative one in which two groups of participants were selected by snowball sampling. Each group comprised 15 Azari-Farsi bilinguals aged 5 to 8 years. Data collection instrument was the Farsi version of Bishop's Children's Communication Checklist, validated in Iran. Data were analyzed by t-test. Results: No significant difference was observed between groups in initiation, but the difference was significant in their use of context. Conclusion: Cochlear implant users perform poorer than their normally hearing peers in some pragmatic skills, but they perform much better than children with profound hearing loss. |
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| Keywords: Cochlear implant, pragmatic competence, initiation, context of situation |
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Received: 2017/12/23 | Accepted: 2018/11/20 | Published: 2019/01/9
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