Introduction & General Information
Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that has an effect both on literacy skills in students´ first language and on foreign language learning. In order to ensure that dyslexic students successfully acquire necessary levels of foreign language competence, they need additional support.
Foreign language teachers often lack sufficient understanding of the nature of dyslexia and the difficulties it causes in foreign language learning because their undergraduate studies do not provide them with the skills to further the language learning processes of dyslexic students.
Therefore the need for a teacher education programme that focuses on the teaching of English as a Foreign - Second Language to dyslexic learners often appears imperative.
This course is entirely based on a Comenius project (www.dystefl.eu) and training materials developed in the course of the project DysTEFL - Dyslexia for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, co-financed by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme, project number: 518466-LLP-1-2011-PL-COMENIUS-CMP.
ALL training materials should be referenced as follows:
Nijakowska, J., Kormos, J., Hanusova, S., Jaroszewicz, B, Kálmos, B, Imrene Sarkadi, A., Smith, A. M., Szymańska-Czaplak, E., Vojtkova, N. (2013). DysTEFL - Dyslexia for teachers of English as a foreign language. Self-study course. Retrieved from: http://course.dystefl.eu/