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Teaching Languages to Students with Specific Learning Differences

Judit Kormos Anne Margaret Smith

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Multilingual Matters
10 October 2023
Series: MM Textbooks
This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively and successfully with students who have Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs). It enables teachers to gain a thorough understanding of the nature of SpLDs and how these affect both general learning processes and the mechanisms of second language acquisition. In addition, the book explores the particular inclusive methods and techniques of teaching and assessment that foster success in language learning. Language teaching is embedded in a wider social and educational context, and therefore the book also provides an in-depth discussion of general educational issues related to identifying and disclosing disabilities and to making transitions from one institution to the other.

The content has been thoroughly updated and revised for the second edition, particularly in the areas of inclusive pedagogies, new evidence-based methods and tools for identifying SpLDs, and new conceptualisations of neurodiversity. The book also includes the latest research on assessment, transition and progression, and the impact of SpLDs on additional language learning.

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Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Height: 245mm,  Width: 174mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   600g
ISBN:   9781800418615
ISBN 10:   1800418612
Series:   MM Textbooks
Pages:   248
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  A / AS level
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface Chapter 1. Discourses of Disability in Education Chapter 2. What are Specific Learning Differences? Chapter 3. The Impact of SpLDs on Learning Additional Languages Chapter 4. Identification and Disclosure Chapter 5. Inclusive Language Teaching Chapter 6. Techniques for Inclusive Language Teaching  Chapter 7. Assessment of the Language Skills of Language Learners with SpLDs Chapter 8. Transition and Progression Appendices References Index

Judit Kormos is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of The Second Language Acquisition Process of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties (Routledge, 2017). She was a key partner in the ELTon award-winning DysTEFL and Comics for Inclusive Language Learning Erasmus+ projects and is the lead educator of the Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching massive open online learning course offered by Future Learn.   Anne Margaret Smith is a specialist tutor and assessor for students with SpLDs. She is the editor of Activities for Inclusive Language Teaching: Valuing Diversity in the ELT Classroom (Delta Publishing, 2020). Her company ELT Well offers advice and training for teachers and assessors who want to explore the overlap between language learning and SpLDs.

Reviews for Teaching Languages to Students with Specific Learning Differences

This timely and informative book addresses the impact of specific learning differences (SpLDs) on learning additional languages and the knowledge and teaching strategies that teachers need to enhance the language learning of SpLDs. This accessible volume promises to be a useful companion for teacher educators in teacher training and in-service contexts. * Esther Geva, University of Toronto, Canada *


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