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Teaching Foreign Languages to Students with Learning Difficulties

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  1. Module 1. About Learning Difficulties
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  2. Module 2. Learning Outcomes in FLT
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  3. Module 3. Key Principles Described
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  4. Module 4. Lessons Methodology
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  5. Module 5. Exercises
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  6. Module 6. Tips for Teachers
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  7. Module 7. Good practices
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  8. Module 8. How to Assess the Learning Outcomes
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General tips

  • Creating a supportive learning environment, by providing open spaces, comfortable seats, possibly in a circle, a combination of audio/visual devices, objects, a variety of informative resources, such as videos, podcasts, images and pictograms on the walls, etc.
  • Organising the learning environment so that teachers are not at the front room at a podium or imposing desk. It’s better that they can freely move throughout the room observing and assessing each individual.
  • Creating an enjoyable environment that motivates discovery of learning, with multi-sensory classrooms with liberal use of images.

Tips for learners with dyslexia

  • Organising a creative space, with harmony of colours, plenty of light, music and smells that create a positive mood for learning

Tips for learners with dyslexia, ADD and ADHD

  • Creating an enjoyable environment that motivates discovering and learning.
  • Involving all the senses in the learning process (especially tactile and kinaesthetic ones for those who present difficulties with visual and auditory ones).
  • Usage of multisensory classroom.

Tips for learners with ASD

  • To organise the environment including a general classroom layout – the distribution of spaces, furniture and materials. For learners with ASD it is important to have a low stimulus environment when compared to traditional classrooms.