Language Pedagogy for Students with Learning Difficulties

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To What Extent, and How, Explicit Teaching Of Grammar Should Form Part Of Current Foreign Language Pedagogy Article 1: Developing writing skills of learners with persistent literacy difficulties through explicit grammar teaching While a majority of learners English-speaking countries already have a basic knowledge of English, learning grammar creates a better understanding of the mechanisms of the language and thus facilitates improved reading and writing skills (McCormack-Colbert et al., 2018) Objective of the Research The aim of the study was to understand how learning grammar is useful to people with learning difficulties such as dyslexia. The research also aims at creating a more efficient curriculum to support learners with learning difficulties. Studies have shown that learning phonemes and graphemes is particularly beneficial in helping dyslexic learners make connections between written and spoken English and thus develop more advanced reading and writing skills. These skills as essential to enhancing the dyslexic learners’ ability to study and do their exams. In the literacy of dyslexics, the curriculum places greater emphasis on developing their reading skills than it does on writing skills, whereas it is equally if not more important to teach dyslexics how to write properly.

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