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This book addresses specific learning difficulties in reading and spelling – developmental dyslexia. Set in the cross-linguistic context, it presents issues surrounding dyslexia from the perspective of a foreign language teacher. It is intended to serve as a reference book for those involved in foreign language teaching, including experienced in-service teachers and novice teachers, as well as teacher trainers and trainees. It offers an up-to-date and reader-friendly study of the mechanisms of dyslexia and an overview of the current research on the disorder, in theoretical and practical terms. Its aim is to help teachers tackle one of the many challenges they face in the modern classroom: the organization of an effective foreign language teaching process for students with dyslexia.

Dyslexia. --- Second language acquisition. --- Dyslexic children --- English language --- Dyslexia --- Language. --- Learning. --- Education. --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- etiology. --- therapy. --- EFL (Language study) --- English as a foreign language --- English as a second language --- English to speakers of other languages --- ESL (Language study) --- ESOL (Language study) --- Teaching English as a second language --- TEFL (Language study) --- TESL (Language study) --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Developmental dyslexia --- Word-blindness, Partial --- Language disorders --- Reading disability --- Alexia --- Foreign students --- Germanic languages --- Learning --- L2 and dyslexia. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- crosslinguistic influence. --- dyslexia. --- foreign language learning. --- language teaching process for students with dyslexia. --- learning difficulties. --- second language learning. --- teaching languages to students with dyslexia.

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In this age of globalisation, people who do not speak a foreign language are at a serious disadvantage in the job market. It is therefore of great relevance that learners with learning disabilities are also provided with equal and appropriate opportunities to acquire a second or foreign language. The aim of the book is to give readers an insight into the language learning process of learners with disabilities. The articles discuss the learning process and the teaching of dyslexic as well as hearing impaired learners in various parts of the world, from the USA and Canada to England, Norway, Poland and Hungary. The intended audience of the book is language teachers, MA and MEd students, and researchers in the field of SLA, applied linguistics, or special education.

Language and languages --- Students with disabilities. --- Handicapped students --- People with disabilities --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Study and teaching. --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- dyslexia. --- dyslexic learners. --- foreign language learning. --- hearing impaired learners. --- learner differences. --- learners with disabilities. --- learning disabilities. --- teaching of dyslexic pupils. --- teaching of dyslexic students.

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This volume contributes to the growing body of research on developmental dyslexia, focusing on the behavioural manifestations of the disorder at different levels of the language system. It presents data from experimental and applied research and their applications in language teaching, rehabilitation of reading dysfunctions and teacher training.

Dyslexic children --- Reading --- Contrastive linguistics --- Linguistics --- Remedial reading --- Reading, Psychology of --- Reading (Elementary) --- Reading disability --- Remedial teaching --- Education --- Contrastive linguistics. --- Education. --- Remedial teaching.