抄録
The objective of this study is to discuss how English is taught and what methods are used to communicate between teachers and students in English classes (English Classes and English Conversation Class) for hearing impaired students (HIS), which might be considered fundamental to the successful teaching of the language to HIS. In a way which is different from other subjects, learning English requires the abilities of hearing and speaking and these abilities present one of the major obstacles for HIS in learning English. In this study, communication in English classes is investigated by observing the real state of the English education in a college, a high school for the deaf, and a hard-of-hearing class in a junior high school; and by administering questionnaires to English teachers in junior high schools for the deaf all over Japan. The results clearly showed that English teachers should be provided with some skills to talk directly with HIS, using visual ways, such as sign language, fingerspelling, cued speech, and so on.
