본 연구는 이중언어주의에 근거하여 농아동의 1차 언어로 수화를 사용하고 2차 언어로 문자언어를 동시에 투입하면서, 농아동과 가족 간에 의사소통을 중심으로 하는 언어교육을 실시하여, 농아동의 언어능력과 농아동과 가족 간의 의사소통 양식·정도에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하였다. 본 언어교육을 실시한 결과, 이중언어주의에 근거한 언어교육이 농아동의 어휘력을 중심으로 언어능력을 향상시켰으며, 농아동과 건청가족 간에 이루어지는 의사소통 양식이 말, 글, 몸짓 위주에서 말과 수화 중심으로 변화되었고, 전반적인 의사소통 정도는 가족들의 사전, 사후 상담에서 긍정적인 변화를 가져왔다.

This study was to investigate the effect of the bilingual language education which focused on the communication of deaf children with his family members. The target child of this study was a elementary deaf school student with his mother and a younger sister. The results of this study are as following: First, the deaf child's Korean vocabularies have improved in this bilingual education. Second, the communication mode of deaf child with his family members has changed from speech, letter, mime to speech and sign. The degree of their communication has improved, and this affirmative change was found in consultation with family members. This result suggested that the bilingual education which admitted a sign language as deaf children's mother tongue and introduced a sign language in the education of deaf children as priority, can be useful. And it may be found that hearing family members of deaf children need sign language education program for long time to communicate with deaf children smoothly.

This study was to investigate the effect of the bilingual language education which focused on the communication of deaf children with his family members. The target child of this study was a elementary deaf school student with his mother and a younger sister. The results of this study are as following: First, the deaf child's Korean vocabularies have improved in this bilingual education. Second, the communication mode of deaf child with his family members has changed from speech, letter, mime to speech and sign. The degree of their communication has improved, and this affirmative change was found in consultation with family members. This result suggested that the bilingual education which admitted a sign language as deaf children's mother tongue and introduced a sign language in the education of deaf children as priority, can be useful. And it may be found that hearing family members of deaf children need sign language education program for long time to communicate with deaf children smoothly.

The bilingual approach, The language education for deaf children, Sign language.