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.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Discourses of Disability in EducationChapter 2. What are Specific Learning Differences?Chapter 3. The Impact of SpLDs on Learning Additional LanguagesChapter 4. Identification and DisclosureChapter 5. Inclusive Language TeachingChapter 6. Techniques for Inclusive Language Teaching Chapter 7. Assessment of the Language Skills of Language Learners with SpLDsChapter 8. Transition and ProgressionAppendicesReferencesIndex

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.