Detail Verbalism of a ten-year-old Indonesian child with congential blindness   Oleh:  Vici Alfanani P. Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: Seventh Conference on English Studies ( CONEST 7), Jakarta, 26-27 November 2010, page 183-186. Fulltext: page 35.pdf (122.86KB) Ketersediaan Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 406 CES 7 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1  Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Vision is one of the vital sensory organs for human being. The absence of vision may influence the process of language acquisition that corresponds to the delay in acquisition. This study tried to observe the verbalism used by a ten-year old Indonesian child with congenital blindness. Verbalism is the use of abstract concepts not apprehended by concrete experiences. In this study, there were three techniques used to obtain the data. Those were word association test, retelling story task, and interview. All of the responses were audio-taped to measure the length of the pauses occurred. The entire tasks were given to know whether the blind child could associate and use visual words, together with analyzing the difficulty in producing the words through the occurrences of pause. The results showed that the blind child used the visual words but he had difficulty and disability in producing certain words. The child was not able to describe a big object holistically such as house and ship. The child was also unable to associate the colors of black, white, and brown correctly and to describe the visual appearance. However, the blind child had several techniques to acquire the visual words. He relied more on his auditory and tactual exploration. The difficulty and limitation were not merely because of the blindness. It also depended on how people treated him and involved him in the daily life. The more the child is exposed to the visual words, the more vocabulary and abstract concepts are acquired. Therefore, the blind child still has an opportunity to compensate the sighted language because the further knowledge and education will ease the difficulty and the disability to use the visual words. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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