Course: Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching

Watch this video in which the dyslexic students you were acquainted with last week talk about their foreign language learning experiences. As you watch, try to answer the following questions: …

Watch this video and take notes about the difficulties dyslexic students mention in the following areas in their academic and private lives: reading spelling attention span time management and organisation …

In this interview Professor Kate Cain from Lancaster University explains the processes of reading comprehension, the difficulties children can have with understanding written texts and how parents and teachers can …

In this video Judit Kormos discusses the effect of dyslexia on foreign language learning. Before you watch this video, please download the diagram which you will find in the Downloads …

Watch this four minute video that was prepared in the framework of the Dystefl project and follow the steps to complete the task. The pace of the video is deliberately …

In this short video Margaret Crombie demonstrates how dyslexic students can use visualisation techniques to memorise vocabulary in another language. Her examples come from French, but can be easily applied …

Refer back to what you learned about the nature of dyslexia last week. Can you answer the following questions: Should students with specific learning differences learn foreign or additional languages? …

In this video Dr Anne Margaret Smith discusses how language teachers might spot signs of learning difficulties in the language classroom. Identifying learning difficulties among multilingual speakers especially if no …