Title The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (188 pages) Series Second Language Acquisition Research Series Second language acquisition research. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 An Overview of Specific Learning Difficulties; 1.1 Learning Disabilities, Learning Differences or Learning Difficulties?; 1.2 Specific Learning Difficulties: What Are They?; 1.3 Different Approaches to Defining Specific Learning Difficulties; 1.4 The Processes of Reading and Learning How to Read; 1.5 Writing Processes and Learning to Write; 1.6 The Cognitive Determinants and Possible Causes of Specific Learning Difficulties; 1.7 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; 1.8 Autistic Spectrum Disorders; 1.9 Summary 2 The Identification of Specific Learning Difficulties in Another Language2.1 Assessment, Identification and Diagnosis; 2.2 The Process and Tools of Assessment; 2.3 Reading in Different Languages and Orthographies; 2.4 Cognitive and Linguistic Predictors of Reading Outcomes and Reading Difficulties in Different Languages; 2.5 The Role of Social, Educational and Contextual Factors in Reading Difficulties; 2.6 Identifying Reading and Learning Difficulties in Multilingual Students; 2.7 An Overview of Assessment of Specific Learning Difficulties for Multilingual Learners 3 The Cognitive Effects of Specific Learning Difficulties on the Processes of Learning an Additional Language3.1 The Construct of Working Memory; 3.2 The Construct of Language Learning Aptitude and Its Interrelationship With Working Memory; 3.3 Language Learning Aptitude and SpLDs; 3.4 The Interrelationship of Cognitive Abilities, L1 Skills and L2 Learning; 3.5 The Effect of SpLDs on the Processes of Second Language Learning; 3.6 The Second Language Learning Processes of Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders; 3.7 The Cognitive Benefits of Learning Additional Languages 3.8 Conclusion and Implications4 Specific Learning Difficulties and Affective Factors in Language Learning; 4.1 Language Learning Anxiety and Students With SpLDs; 4.2 Motivation and Language Learners With SpLDs; 4.3 Conclusion and Implications; 5 Assessing the Second Language Skills of Students With Specific Learning Difficulties; 5.1 Validity and Fairness; 5.2 Accommodations and Modifications; 5.3 Types of Accommodations in Assessment; 5.4 Accommodations in High-Stakes Second Language Proficiency Tests; 5.5 Stakeholders' Views About Accommodations in High-Stakes Language Assessment 5.6 Conclusions and Implications6 Teaching Languages to Students With Specific Learning Difficulties; 6.1 Inclusion and Dyslexia-Friendly Schools; 6.2 Inclusion of Students With SpLDs in the Second Language Classroom; 6.3 Intervention Programmes; 6.4 Conclusion; References; Index Notes Print version record Subject Language and languages -- Study and teaching. Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching Students with disabilities. Dyslexia -- Education Language and languages -- Study and teaching Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching Students with disabilities Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317432920 1317432924

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