Action research to generate requirements for a computational environment supporting bilingual literacy of deaf children

Abstract

Having as premises the user-centered design and the necessity for a greater knowledge about the real context of teaching and learning a second language to Deaf children, this study makes use of action research to get requirements for the conceptual model of a computational environment supporting bilingual literacy of Deaf children. This paper describes the activities of a particular action research process, together with its stages, performed with four Deaf children within a Brazilian public bilingual school. The process lasted three months and achieved the following results: a significant improvement in the interest of participating children in written Portuguese - qualitative, measured by their motivation in not stopping their learning process - and a set of functional and non functional requirements for the conceptual model to be developed. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.