Teaching EFL to Students with Dyslexia: A Handbook for Practitioners by Ebenhöh Louise

Author:Ebenhöh, Louise [Ebenhöh, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Louise Ebenhöh
Published: 2014-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Targeted reading

A reading exercise is often used to illustrate a new tense or structure. If this is the case, get your student to read through the text looking for that specific language point e.g. using a highlighter pen to underline a word or phrase every time he sees the past simple tense.

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Reading aloud

By getting your student to read aloud, you can correct his pronunciation, and see where he’s confident and where he hesitates. This is all good information. Stop at the end of each paragraph. Get him to highlight any new vocab. Discuss new words with him. Get him to summarise what he has just read. This breaks up the task and gets him to put the text into his own words and take some ownership of it.

If your student is resistant to reading aloud, then break up the text by reading it aloud to him, firstly a word at a time and then a sentence at a time. Begin by getting him to repeat individual words after you, then expand it to phrases and sentences. This is quite a boring way to read, but stick with it. One student of mine put up with this for about seven minutes, with me sitting next to him, pointing at individual words and pronouncing each word slowly and clearly. Eventually he took the text book from me and read it out at a reasonable speed.

As with speaking exercises, I only correct pronunciation if I think the student wouldn’t be understood or would be misunderstood.

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