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Subject: Dyslexia in different languages

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Wendy Fox

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Date Posted: 05:30:58 11/09/11 Wed

I have just read an article which stated that children who speak English or French have a much harder time trying to read and write than children whose first language is Italian do because there are fewer sounds to learn in Italian. This reminded me of the time when I had a dyslexic English-speaking student in my German class. This student (who I will call "John") was very bright but had been diagnosed as being dyslexic when he went to a further education college. He was studying three science subjects but became interested in learning German when he met some visiting German students at college. He came along to a German class and was soon top of the class as he found German so easy to spell compared with English. For non-German speaking readers I must explain that in German, once you have learned which sounds correlate with which letters you can spell any German word as there are no exceptions to the spelling rules. John was absolutely delighted that he found German so relatively easy that he decided to take Advanced Level German. Unfortunately, he failed his science exams but went on to get a grade "A" in Advanced Level German. Has anybody else had a similar experience to this with a student failing in English medium exams but doing well in a foreign language?

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