Dyslexia and language teaching MOOC

This looks extremely interesting for anyone with an interest in dyslexia and language learning.

This is the second run of the free online learning course on ‘Dyslexia and language teaching’  (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/dyslexia) which will take place between the 18^th of April – 15^th of May 2016.

This highly successful course is offered by Lancaster University in cooperation with FutureLearn and the Dystefl2 project and takes place over four weeks entirely online. It is aimed at English language teachers, teachers of modern foreign languages, teacher trainers, educators and trainee teachers who are interested in how they can accommodate and cater for the needs of students with dyslexia in foreign/second language classrooms.

In this course, which is based on the award-winning materials of the Dystefl project (www.dystefl.eu), you can find out about the nature of dyslexia and how it affects the learning of additional languages. You can explore a variety of useful techniques, including recent computer-assisted tools that you can take into the classroom to help students with dyslexia in acquiring another language.

Lead educator Prof. Judit Kormos and well-known experts Dr. Anne Margaret Smith and Dr. Joanna Nijakowska give practical guidance and advice on enhancing the phonological awareness, vocabulary knowledge and reading skills of dyslexic language learners.

The materials and tasks in the course can be applied for various age groups of dyslexic students and for a variety of language learning contexts including the teaching of English as a foreign/second language and the teaching of modern foreign languages.

Enrolment is now open (https://www.futurelearn.com/register) and we are looking forward to welcoming you, your colleagues and students  as one of our participants.