Teaching Languages to Students with Specific Learning Differences

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.

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