Author: Judith Kirsh

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• Author Judith Kirsh
• Date January 2007

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Basic Literacy in ESOL module

• Session 3 Identifying and supporting dyslexic
  learners

The Skills for Life Improvement Programme is
delivered on behalf of the Quality Improvement
Agency by CfBT Education Trust and partners
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Aims

• For participants to
• increase their understanding of dyslexia
• develop their ability to make appropriate
  choices of approach and methodology when
  teaching adult ESOL learners basic literacy.

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Learning objectives

• By the end of the session participants will have
• examined indicators of dyslexia and the
  implications of the dyslexic learning style
  for ESOL teachers
• explored ways of supporting dyslexic learners
  of ESOL
• investigated theories of how people learn to
  spell
• examined methods of teaching spelling to
  beginner writers of English.

The Skills for Life Improvement Programme is
delivered on behalf of the Quality Improvement
Agency by CfBT Education Trust and partners
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ESOL activities would these suit global or
analytic learners?

• drills
• role plays
• putting sentences in order
• discussion
• Murphy-type grammar exercises
• reminiscences

• games
• substitution tables
• information gap
• grammar and spelling rules
• drama
• visuals
• other

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Dyslexia implications for ESOL basic literacy

• Teaching and learning should be
• multi-sensory
• contextualised
• personally meaningful to the learner
• global
• concrete
• structured
• inductive
• explicit.

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Days of the week in Hungarian

• hétfo
• kedd
• szerda
• csütörtök
• péntek
• szombat
• vasárnap