1st Edition

The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties

By Judit Kormos Copyright 2017
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties is the only recent book available to offer a detailed and in-depth discussion of the second language learning processes of students with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs). It summarizes research advances in the fields of cognitive and educational psychology and integrates them with recent studies in the... Read more

Chapter 1. An overview of Specific Learning Difficulties.

Chapter 2. The identification of Specific Learning Difficulties in another language.

Chapter 3. The cognitive effects of specific learning difficulties on the processes of learning an additional language.

Chapter 4. Specific learning differences and affective factors in language learning.

Chapter 5. Assessing the second language skills of students with specific learning difficulties.

Chapter 6. Teaching languages to students with SpLDs

Biography

Judit Kormos is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at Lancaster University, UK. She was a key partner in the award-winning Dyslexia for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language project. She is the lead educator in the Dyslexia and Language Teaching massive open online learning course. She has published widely on the effect of dyslexia on processes of second language learning.