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Moderate learning difficulties
Kathryn Taylor works in a school for students with moderate learning difficulties. Her report Teaching languages to students with learning difficulties compares different teaching methods in MFL with MLD students.
The CILT Bulletin MFL Issue 1, Autumn 2002 contains (page 10) articles by Alison Edwards and Manuele Minger about an intensive French Week at Majory Kinnon MLD School and a subsequent French experience by some of the pupils at the British Airways Community Language Centre.
Severe learning difficulties
The British Council Education and Training Group resource Let's do something special... How special needs students are involved in international activities contains (page 2) the article Sherwood Park School'.
CILT Languages and Special Educational Needs Bulletin Issue 12 contains (page 2) S. Ashley's article 'Do they really expect us to teach French? and J. Jarratt's article 'From Brecon to Rouen: The first school trip to France for a group of SLD pupils'.
CILT Languages and Special Educational Needs Bulletin Issue 13 contains S. Hosking's article 'Pardon Pierre: Teaching French in a school for pupils with severe learning difficulties' (page 2); A. Nixon's article 'Tac-pac tactics!' (page 2); S. Garner's article 'Introduction of French: Rainbow School, Bedfordshire' (pages. 4-5); and J. Davis' article. 'The tackier the better' (page 7).
Modern Foreign Language: strategies at The Redway School for teaching MFL to students with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties.
Multi-sensory French: An idea contributed by Janet Kinnane, who teaches French to children with profound and multiple learning difficulties.
Specific learning difficulties
Bibliography of Work on Teaching Foreign Languages to Students with Learning Disabilities: Christie Herbert's bibliography of work done in the Foreign Languages/LD field.
Foreign Language Instruction and Students with Learning Disabilities: Steve Krasner of the Special Education Center, Middletown, CT compiled this bibliography under the auspices of the Connecticut State Department of Education, Division of Educational Programs and Services, Bureau of Special Education and Pupils Services.
Margaret Crombie's paper Teaching and learning of Modern Foreign Languages for Dyslexic Students on the British Dyslexia Association's website.
The University of Hull Open Learning Centre for Languages guidelines Dyslexia and Learning a Modern Foreign Language.
Dyslexia, Language Learning and using languages other than English: a website dedicated to technologies of use in teaching MFL to students with Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia).
ALLADIN Project, Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, supporting dyslexic language learners with ICT. Alison Kennard's Dyslexia Awareness Support Pack for tutors: Supporting the dyslexic language learner.
Teaching Foreign Languages to At-Risk Learners, Elke Schneider's ERIC Digest.
Learning disabilities and foreign language learning: a painful collision, Robin L. Schwarz's article about dyslexic language learners.
How can foreign language teachers be trained to teach reading comprehension to pupils with specific learning difficulties, with special emphasis on the dyslexic pupil? Abstract of C. Goldfus' Masters Dissertation submitted to the English Language Institute, University of Surrey.
ESL Instruction for Learning Disabled Adults: Robin Schwarz' article in ERIC Digest EDO-LE-94-08.
ESL Instruction and Adults With Learning Disabilities: Robin Schwarz' article in ERIC Digest EDO-LE-00-01.
Learning Disabilities in Adult ESL: Case Studies and Directions: article by Dorothy Almanza, Kate Singleton and Lynda Terrill of the Arlington Education and Employment Program.
A guide to learning disabilities for the ESL classroom practitioner: Christine Root's TESL-EJ article.
Teaching ESL among Adults with Learning Disabilities: Training Materials for Facilitators and Participants, prepared by Ardith R. Loustalet Simons of Northern Colorado Literacy Resource Center for CAEPA Conference, Fall 1999.
NCLE Resource Collections: Learning Disabilities and Adult ESL: National Center for ESL Literacy Education resource collection.
Landmark College Foreign Language Project: The teaching of foreign languages at a college for students with learning disabilities.
Students with Learning Disabilities at Gettysburg College, a review by Elizabeth Ciner, Roberta Z. Lavine and Teresa Cabal Krastel of policies, procedures, and issues relevant to students with documented learning disabilities studying foreign languages.
Foreign Language Modification Program: A Commitment to Alternatives: description of a nationally known curricular accommodation in foreign languages for college students with LD run by the University of Colorado Center for Language and Learning. The CLL is a research and development centre that conducts research into the nature of oral and written learning disabilities in first and second languages, their effect on first and second language acquisition and, the development of model programs for students with learning disabilities (LD).
Dyslexia and second language reading: a literature review: Tara Edwards' contribution to a Psycholinguistics Seminar on the psychology of reading.
Order form for audiotapes or CDs of presentations at the 2002 International Dyslexia Association Conference on Multilingual & Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Dyslexia, June 27-29, Washington, D.C., many of them related to learning-disabled students of foreign languages.
The Foreign Language Beginner Reader — Linguistic Characteristics: PowerPoint presentation accompanying the address by J. Kahn-Horwitz, J. Shimron and R. L. Sparks at the 2002 International Dyslexia Association Conference on Multilingual & Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Dyslexia, June 27-29, Washington, D.C.
Links in learning: A manual linking second language learning, literacy and learning disabilities: a compendium of information about second language learning and learning disabilities in a Canadian context.
Dyslexia and English as a Second Language (including Bilingualism): Issues, Research, Diagnosis, Instruction and Future Directions, International Dyslexia Association Video Webcast.
AIXELSYD - DYSLEXIA - should a foreign language teacher be interested in it?, Joanna Nijakowska's article on the teaching of English to Polish dyslexics.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language to a Polish Dyslexic Child - a Case Study. Joanna Nijakowska's presentation at the 5th BDA International Conference at the University of York, April 2001.
English as a Foreign Language and the Dyslexic College Student: Pilot Screening Test and Remedial Materials in the Language Laboratory, Marsha Bensoussan's University of Haifa project.
Fremdsprachen - LRS: Eva-Maria Weiner explains why German dyslexics have trouble learning English, Latin or French and how they can study foreign languages successfully.
Englisch-Schwäche: PAETEC Institute für Therapie article about foreign language dyslexia, with particular reference to English.
Auswirkungen der Legasthenie auf Fremdsprachen: Freie Praxis Illertissen article about problems and strategies for dyslexic German learners of English.
Apprentissage de l'anglais par les dyslexiques Allemands: Ingrid Paulsen explains how she teaches English to German dyslexics.
Übungssammlung zur Förderung von Legasthenikern im Englischunterricht: principles and practice of teaching English to German dyslexics compiled by the "Englisch in der Realschule" working group of the Landesinstitut für Schule und Ausbildung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Pädagogisches Regionalinstitut (L.I.S.A.) in Greifswald.
Fremdsprachen: Englisch kann auch Spaß machen: Eva-Maria Weiner's article on the teaching of foreign languages to German dyslexics.
Dyslexie et français langue seconde. The Canadian Dyslexia Association's founder and director, Louise Brazeau-Ward, lists the difficulties experienced by dyslexic learners of French as a second language.
Vreemde talen: Myriam Schrover's advice to dyslexic learners of French, German and English in the Netherlands about vocabulary, grammar and reading development.
Materialen: Computer programs of use in teaching foreign languages to Dutch dyslexics.
Engelska - nyckeln till högre utbildning: Malin Holmberg's paper on the learning of English by Swedish dyslexics.
Hvordan kan vi bedst støtte ordblinde børns fremmedsprogsindlæring: article by Elisabeth Arnbak of Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet, Copenhagen, about the teaching of foreign languages to Danish dyslexics.
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