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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.
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Bueno, J., Sánchez García, L. (2014). Action Research to Generate Requirements for a Computational Environment Supporting Bilingual Literacy of Deaf Children. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Universal Access to Information and Knowledge. UAHCI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8514. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07440-5_23
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