Language Learners with Special Needs An

This book provides an overview of topics related to the language learning processes of learners with special needs including students with learning disabilities as well as Deaf language learners and methods of teaching foreign languages to them. The chapters written by authors in a wide variety of educational settings discuss individual learner characteristics and profiles, diagnosis and assessment issues and instructional programs.

Judit Kormos is a senior lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. She is the editor of the volume Language Learners with Special Needs: An International Perspective. She was the principal investigator of a research and teacher training project on the language learning processes of dyslexic and Deaf learners in Hungary.Edit H. Kontra is associate professor at the Department of English Applied Linguistics of Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest. Her main research interest lies in individual differences, language testing and the methodology of teaching EFL.

Introduction - Judit Kormos and Edit H. Kontra

1. L1 and L2 Literacy, Aptitude, and Affective Variables as Discriminators among High- and Low-achieving L2 Learners with Special Needs - Richard L. Sparks, Leonore Ganschow and Jon Patton

2. Writing Abilities in First and Second Language Learners with and without Reading Disabilities - Katherine Ndlovu and Esther Geva

3. Second Language Assessment in Dyslexia: Principles and Practice - Turid Helland

4. Input, Processing and Output Anxiety in Students with Symptoms of Developmental Dyslexia - Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel

5. Vocabulary Learning in Dyslexia – The Case of a Hungarian Learner - Ágnes Sarkadi

6. An Experiment with Direct Multisensory Instruction in Teaching Word Reading and Spelling to Polish Dyslexic Learners of English - Joanna Nijakowska

7. Deaf EFL Learners Outside the School System - Ágnes Bajkó and Edit H. Kontra

8. Hungarian Teachers' Perceptions of Dyslexic Language Learners - Judit Kormos and Edit H. Kontra

9. Teachers' and Trainers' Perceptions of Inclusive Education within TEFL Certificate Courses in Britain - Anne Margaret Smith

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Language Learners with Special Needs An International Perspective

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