Supporting Learners with Dyslexia in the ELT Classroom

This book provides specific support to teachers who need to accommodate learners with dyslexia in their ELT classrooms - guiding them through the main steps of the process with clear explanations, suggestions, and practical tools. Areas covered include: the nature and causes of dyslexia emotional, cognitive, and linguistic factors connected to dyslexia and English as a foreign, second, or other language methodological guidelines for making English language teaching accessible for learners with dyslexia strategies for phonological and orthographic work developing communicative skills in oral and written language accessible language testing and assessment in classroom-based and official contexts. Extra resources are available on the website:www.oup.com/elt/teacher/supportingdyslexia