AJ5413 Dyslexia for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jana Chocholatá, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Markéta Oplatková Plocková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jana Chocholatá, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Students will
expand their awareness of specific needs the learners with dyslexia have while studying English as a foreign language;
learn how to respect the SpLD learners´specific needs;
practise basic classroom management techniques suitable for classes with SpLD learners;
accommodate SpLD learners in the lessons using different scaffolding techniques;
make themselves familiar with different forms of assessment of SpLD learners.
Syllabus
  • The nature of dyslexia
  • Specific learning difficulties associated with dyslexia
  • Identification of dyslexia
  • The effect of dyslexia on foreign language learning
  • Accommodations of dyslexic learners in the foreign language classroom and overview of teaching techniques
  • Phonological and orthographic awareness in EFL
  • Techniques for teaching vocabulary and grammar
  • Teaching listening and speaking
  • Teaching reading and writing
  • The assessment of dyslexic language learners
Literature
  • KORMOS, Judit and Anne Margaret SMITH. Teaching languages to students with specific learning differences. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2012, xii, 232. ISBN 9781847696205. info
Teaching methods
Readings, discussions, presentations, material design and evaluation.
Assessment methods
Continuous assessment: active participation in the sessions, ongoing tasks, forum discussions.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Předmět bude realizován pokud se přihlásí alespoň 15 studentů.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin ve 2 blocích.
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