Dyslexia in the Foreign Language Classroom

This book addresses specific learning difficulties in reading and spelling – developmental dyslexia. Set in the cross-linguistic context, it presents issues surrounding dyslexia from the perspective of a foreign language teacher. It is intended to serve as a reference book for those involved in foreign language teaching, including experienced in-service teachers and novice teachers, as well as teacher trainers and trainees. It offers an up-to-date and reader-friendly study of the mechanisms of dyslexia and an overview of the current research on the disorder, in theoretical and practical terms. Its aim is to help teachers tackle one of the many challenges they face in the modern classroom: the organization of an effective foreign language teaching process for students with dyslexia.

However, the feature that earned this definition the unfavourable attitude of
practitioners is its clearly exclusionary character ... that a person being assessed
towards dyslexia was exposed to in order to escape misclassification (Szczerbin
́ski, 2007). ... The same holds true for 'adequate intelligence', one might wonder
why children with an IQ below average may not ... the occurrence of reading
problems, though with probably greater impact on comprehension than decoding
skills (Frith, ...