A Qualitative Study of the Iranian Deaf Students’ Attitude towards PowerPoint Usage in Learning English

Recent developments in the field of education have led to a renewed interest in using power point for deaf students. Based on different studies, the PowerPoint program as a common multimedia tool has a crucial role in teaching and learning through providing a suitable understanding of the text as well as motivating students. This paper has mainly focused on evaluation of the deaf student′s attitudes toward PowerPoint usage in English learning. The current qualitative study has aimed to assess the motivational effects of the PowerPoint presentation regarding to promote reading comprehension skill of deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) students. To this end, in the present research a semi-structured interview was conducted across 8 male participants of D/HH who were exposed the PowerPoint presentation in one semester. The qualitative data were analyzed using Max Q software. The results have revealed that most of the students preferred the PowerPoint presentation for English learning and it seems that this technology application promotes their learning interest due to increasingly engagement in class activities. The findings have also demonstrated that most of the students have positive attitudes towards power point and using it in language skills teaching.