role of educational applications in enhancing special needs pupils' English language performance

Abstract

Teaching special-needs pupils require a highly professional teacher with good teaching experience. Recently, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic-imposed distance- communication, educational institutions shifted the educational process to distance education via electronic communication platforms with the help of educational applications. Educational applications have experienced an extensive and rapid spread worldwide. This study aims to reveal the role of the most recommended educational application called "Children's Education" in enhancing special-needs primary school pupils' English language performance in writing English letters, reading English letters, learning English daily life vocabulary, subject pronouns, English numbers, dictation, and matching pictures with action words. The participants were nine from Baghdad, Iraq, twelve from Jordan, and eight from AlBuraimi City, Sultanate of Oman, of special-needs pupils from grade six inclusive classrooms in primary schools during the first semester of the academic year 2021–2022. A pretest and posttest were used to collect the data. Means and standard deviations were used as statistical means to analyze the data. The findings revealed that the "Children's Education" application positively affects the special-needs pupils enhancing their English language performances. Their conditions variables influenced the performance levels among the pupils.