Re: Foreign Languages and Dyslexia -- Dyslexia College Advice Line and Discussion Forum

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, [3], 4 ]

Subject: Re: Foreign Languages and Dyslexia

Author:
Michaela

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 20:38:26 12/03/06 Sun
In reply to: Prof. Bases 's message, "Foreign Languages and Dyslexia" on 17:08:01 11/30/06 Thu

Your student may be perfectly capable of keeping up, it depends on what form of dyslexia they have. i can speek four languages read and write. My grammer and spelling is bad in all of them. In high school in spanish 3 a teacher moved me down to spansh 1 because I had 4 spelling mistakes in a paragraph that was truley a full five sentence paragraph. My neighbouring student had writen one sentence as a paragraph and got an A and stayed in spanish 3. So keep in perspective what is important. Do they know the voacubulary? do the sentences make sence? can they understand you? can they comunicate? if they can not spell all the words corectly it is OK.
People say Latin is better because it helps them with spelling English but it is harder and they can only use it in very limited circomstances.
When I tutor students in foreign language with dyslexia I have them spend extra time meorizing words, but I also introduce vocabulary in context so that they can link it to something already in their memory.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]