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Multilingualism, Literacy and Dyslexia: A Challenge for Educators David Fulton Publishers, 2000, (reprinted 2006) Co-editor Lindsay Peer Product Description This work provides informative guidance for practitioners involved in areas of literacy, multilingualism and dyslexia. It offers advice on assessment and support for bilingual learners and those needing to acquire a modern foreign language. From the Back Cover This timely book provides: current and informative guidance for practitioners involved in areas of literacy, multilingualism and dyslexia, invaluable advice on assessment and support for bilingual learners and those needing to acquire a modern foreign language, an essential text for staff development in this area, reference to innovative approaches in technology and other teaching programs beneficial to multilingual learners, advice on learning additional languages. With contributions from international practitioners and researchers, this book will provide guidance to anyone involved in literacy development, language learning and teaching Table of Contents Section 1: Assessment - Dyslexia diagnosis in different languages Assessing varieties of literacy and English Bilingualism and literacy assessment Bilingual children's profiles on dyslexia screening measures Literacy development in emergent bilingual children. Section 2: Approaches and Strategies - Dyslexia and bilingualism: implications for assessment, teaching and learning The effects of Literacy Hour and phonics teaching on poor readers' phonological and literacy skills: case studies of children with English as an additional language Text genre, miscue analysis, bilingualism and dyslexia: teaching strategies with junior school pupils Shared writing in the support of dyslexic children from different cultural backgrounds Children's spelling errors in Welsh and English writing Multilingualism and literacy in Sweden: multiple sources of reading difficulty Using information and communications technology (ICT) to support bilingual dyslexic learners. Section 3: Policy and Interventions - The literacy acquisition of 'English-as-Additional Language' (EAL) learners: anti-racist assessment and intervention challenges Maori culture and literacy learning: bicultural approaches Bilingualism or dyslexia: language difference of language disorder? Special education or second language learning: what do bilingual children need? Rethinking teacher training programs for linguistically diverse students with dyslexia. Section 4: Dyslexia in Adults and University Students - Diagnosing multilingual adults Dyslexia support in a multilingual university environment Difficulties of English as a foreign language (EFL) for students with language learning disabilities (dyslexia) Identifying and helping learning disabled ESL students in a college intensive English programme. Section 5: Additional Language Learning - The neuropsychology of modern foreign language learning Teaching modern foreign languages to dyslexic learners: a Scottish perspective The language puzzle: connecting the study of linguistics with a multisensory language instructional program in foreign language learning Dyslexia and modern foreign language learning: strategies for success; Structure multisensory teaching for second language learning in Israel Application of the GAME approach to dyslexic learning in Israel Dyslexia: does it mean anything to a foreign language teacher? Using the Internet as a multi-media method of teaching a modern foreign language to people with dyslexia. Product details Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: David Fulton Publishers; 1 edition (20 Oct 2000) Language English ISBN-10: 1853466964 ISBN-13: 978-1853466960 Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm |
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