Foreign Language Archives | Dyslexia

[PREMIUM] Tips for Listening in Foreign Language Classrooms

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | dyslexia, Education, Foreign Language, Premium, Premium Content, Teaching

Although for some dyslexic students the listening component of foreign language classes is an area of strength, many have significant challenges that teachers should be aware of in order to have a successful year. MULTISENSORY AND EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION TO HELP WITH...

Dyslexia-FRIENDLY Foreign language Instruction [PREMIUM]

by Sarah from Dyslexic Advantage | | Accommodations, dyslexia, Education, Foreign Language, Learning, Premium, Premium Content, Strategies, Teachers, Teaching

Because dyslexia has significant challenges that make foreign language learning difficult (e.g. impaired phonemic awareness, limitations on auditory verbal working memory, weak rule-based memory and syntax, etc.), many students request and are granted foreign language...

Dyslexia and Foreign Language Learning [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Foreign Language, Premium, Premium Content

“…reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in foreign languages are all significantly affected by weaknesses in linguistic coding skills even when the native language has been been well-mastered…” – Elike Schneider and Margaret Crombie in Dyslexia and Foreign...

DROPPING OUT BECAUSE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE [Premium]

by Sarah from Dyslexic Advantage | | Accessibility, Accommodations, College, dyslexia, ELLs, Foreign Language, Language Arts, Learning, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Strategies

At Harvard University in the 1970’s, a clinical psychologst made a startling discovery. Intending on studying the emotional problems that caused students at one of the world’s elite universities to drop out of school to drop out, he found out instead that the most...