The Impact of Encoding Mode on the Phonemic Recognition in Di-Syllablic Words of Deaf Students with Different Pinyin Ability
Phonological awareness deficits may be the key to deaf students'new word reading difficulties,and visual speaking provides an alternative to vocabulary decoding and recognition,but visual speaking encoding and its processing mechanisms are still being explored.In this study,we investigated the processing characteristics of deaf students'di-syllabic word recognition under alphabetic encoding and fingerspelling encoding in two experiments using a phonemic recognition task.The results showed that deaf students'recognition of initials was better than that of finals,and was not affected by the encoding method;the advantage of recognizing the first word of a bi-syllabic word was only significant in the fingerspelling encoding,while the advantage of recognizing the first initial of a bi-syllabic word was significant in the alphabetic encoding;and the higher the level of Chinese pinyin the better the overall phonological recognition of words,but there was a"platform"in the role of Chinese pinyin in the fingerspelling encoding.The above results reflect the generality and specificity of the role of encoding mode in deaf students'bi-syllabic word recognition.The study calls for a continuing attention to the teaching of fingerspelling and alphabets,and to the connections and differences between these two visual codes,and suggests that the teaching of Chinese pinyin be strengthened to promote the flexible application of multiple visual means in the phonetic learning of new characters and words of deaf students.