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Language Learning Difficulties in school

Tools for effective and inclusive language education

Michele Daloiso, Gruppo di ricerca ELICom

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Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 20x27cm

Pages: 368

ISBN: 9788859029274

Publication date: 01/03/2025


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The main goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive and practical guide to understanding Special Educational Needs (SEN) related to language learning, specifically Specific Linguistic Needs (SLN), enabling educators to implement effective and functional interventions.

This resource offers practical strategies and operational tools to support students with Specific Linguistic Needs, fostering an inclusive learning environment that benefits the entire class.

Bringing together the expertise of leading specialists in inclusive education, this book adopts a theoretical and practical approach, offering guidance, strategies, and intervention proposals. It serves as a valuable tool for educators facing the increasingly complex challenges of modern schooling.


Introduction

SECTION I – UNDERSTANDING AND REFLECTING

Introduction


  • Chapter 1 – Language education and inclusion: a theoretical compass for orientation

  • Chapter 2 – Learning a language: processes and influencing factors

  • Chapter 3 – The expert language learner: what it means to be a "good language learner"

  • Chapter 4 – Difficulties and disorders in language learning


SECTION II – OBSERVING AND PLANNING

Introduction

  • Chapter 5 – Observational skills

  • Chapter 6 – Observing the learner and contextual factors

  • Chapter 7 – Teaching a language: designing accessible learning pathways


SECTION III – ACTING, EXPERIMENTING, ASSESSING

Introduction

  • Chapter 8 – Metaphonological and meta-orthographic skills

  • Chapter 9 – Reading comprehension

  • Chapter 10 – Production and interaction

  • Chapter 11 – Mediation

  • Chapter 12 – Grammatical competence

  • Chapter 13 – Studying in a second language

  • Chapter 14 – Monitoring and assessment


Bibliography



Erickson Guides

 
«Erickson Guides», the outcome of the work of the greatest Italian experts in these fields, represent the most complete tools for intervention in schools. They not only provide an exhaustive framework of thecharacteristics peculiar to the various disorders and their consequences at school, but also strategies to deal with them, assessment tools and didactic intervention.
ICF-CY Basic Operating Profile and Individualized Educational Plan (IEP)  
Motor and visuo-spatial difficulties at school  
Facilitate and Simplify Text Books  
SEN at school  
ADHD at school  
Autism at school  
Dyslexia and other LD at school  
SENSORY DISABILITY at school  
Intellectual disability at school  
DYSORTHOGRAPHY, DYSGRAPHIA and other writing difficulties at school  
DYSCALCULIA and other difficulties in arithmetic at school  
Emotional disorders at school  
A guide to inclusive educational planning  
Special education needs in pre-school and kindergarten  
Inclusive teaching in lower secondary school  
Autism and Adolescence  
Language Learning Difficulties in school  

EACH GUIDE OFFERS A PROGRAMME IN 4 STAGES

KNOWING, OBSERVING, EVALUATING Clear and exhaustive definition of the disorder, diagnostic criteria, integration of children in class, the evaluation process
PLANNING AND PUTTING INTO ACTION Strategies and practical interventions to be enacted at school to deal effectively with teaching and educational special needs
REFLECTING ON AND UNDERSTANDING Consequences in the spheres of emotions, relationships, self-esteem and self-perception
JOINING FORCES AND SHARING Strategies to act synergically and involve school and family to improve the childs wellbeing

IN EACH CHAPTER YOU CAN FIND...

a sequential time line which illustrates in which phase the practical indications given in the chapter are placed
a conceptual map that illustrates the main contents and how they are related
presentation of case examples, through short descriptions, portraying children in their daily typical situations
questions and key points alongside each paragraph to tell the reader what it is talked about  
interviews with experts on the most debated and current aspects of the disturbs
in-depths explanations of meaningful concepts and terms
final summary box of the main contents dealt with in the chapter



Thematic Areas
Educational and didactics - Methods and theories
 Educational and didactics - Methods and theories > Remedial and support methodologies