2016 Volume 40 Issue 1 Pages 223-232
This study investigated the use of repair strategy by children with hearing impairments during communication breakdown. Four 4 years old children and five 5 years old children with hearing impairments participated in this study. Repair strategies which deployed by previous researches were used to categorize subjects’ reactions into “Repetition” “Addition” “Substitution” “Feedback” and “Other”. Firstly, subjects' reactions were discussed by the repair strategies. Secondly, categories of communication mode were used to discuss whether there were nonlinguistic behavior contained in “Other”. Finally, nonlinguistic behavior reactions were discussed by using the repair strategies. Results showed that the use of repair strategy increased in the order of “Feedback” “Substitution” “Repetition” “Addition”. While, 20 reactions were categorized into “Other”, through the analysis of communication mode, 14 nonlinguistic behavior were observed in the “Other” reactions. According to the analysis of repair strategy, 1 reaction was categorized into “Addition”, 12 reactions were “Feedback”, 1 reaction was “Other”. Therefore, subjects used nonlinguistic behavior to repair communication breakdown as well. This result suggest that, in the further discussion on repair strategy of children with hearing impairments, not only linguistic behavior, but nonlinguistic behavior should be discussed in consideration.
