Skip to 0 minutes and 11 seconds Most of us learned how to read easily and without needing any explicit teaching. But why is it that only a much smaller proportion of people become experts in reading even after several years of instruction? One of the reasons for difficulties in learning how to read is an underlying difference called dyslexia. Although dyslexia by definition means reading difficulty, it doesn’t only affect reading but also other areas of academic performance. One of these areas is the learning of additional languages. Finally, the Wargal turned away. Does it happen that dyslexic difficulties are masked or compensated for in one’s first language literacy skills?
Skip to 1 minute and 7 seconds Yes, and this is why the responsibility of foreign language teachers is high, because the real nature of this learning difference might only become apparent when one is trying to learn another language. Approximately 10% of people have dyslexic type learning differences, which means that in a class of 10 students we are likely to have at least one student who is dyslexic. Yet teacher education in general and language teacher education in particular rarely prepares educators for working with dyslexic students. This course aims to fill this gap and will equip language teachers with the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical tools to meet the needs of dyslexic language learners in foreign language classrooms.
Skip to 2 minutes and 0 seconds The course might also be useful to dyslexic language learners and their parents with some background in linguistics and education to help them understand the learning processes and the ways in which they can become successful learners. In this course, we are trying to find the answers to the question, what is dyslexia? How does it affect the learning of additional languages? How can we fully include dyslexic students in a foreign language classroom? And what tasks and techniques are useful to facilitate their learning? The materials and tasks in the course are designed to be applicable for various age groups of dyslexic students and for a variety of language teaching contexts and are based on the award-winning materials of the DysTEFL Project.
Skip to 2 minutes and 54 seconds Please join us for this four-week course so that you can help dyslexic students to become successful users of another language.
