Manchester Programme

Monday 13 April
Session 3.2 : 1130-1235
Central 6
50 audience
Forum
ESP
FORUM ON DYSLEXIA
Dyslexia in the teaching environment
Martin Bloomfield (York Associates)
Dyslexia affects 10% to 20% of the population. While most of us will come
into contact with dyslexia, very few of us will truly recognise it. This talk
provides participants with a grounding to understand what dyslexia is,
methods for recognising dyslexia, tips for teaching people with dyslexia,
and ideas for improving best practice going forward.
Using interactive web in teaching LD students
Julia Koifman (Beit Ekshtein High School, Israel)
This presentation is for anyone who teaches students with learning
disabilities and wants to understand how to help teenagers with dyslexia. It
will focus on using modern technology in the classroom as one of the ways
of activating kids with special needs in studying English as a foreign
language and enhancing their reading and writing.
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Classroom-based interventions for dyslexia inclusion in language
education
Maria Reraki (University of Manchester)
This talk aims to bring together the area of teaching English as a foreign
language and dyslexia. Practices designed for dyslexic pupils’ inclusion
(dyslexia-friendly) were introduced in Greek EFL classrooms. I will discuss
their effects on dyslexic and non-dyslexic EFL pupils, as well as EFL
teachers’ responses to developing a dyslexia-friendly framework.
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MONDAY
Central 7
1130-1200
80 audience
Talk
GEN
A visual manifesto for language teaching
Kieran Donaghy (UAB Idiomes Barcelona) & Anna Whitcher (Freelance)
In this talk, we will discuss the evolution of the image and the significant
role it can play in our lives if we are active participants in what we see and
what we create. Through the deconstruction of a short film made
specifically to illustrate this concept, we will explain a new visual
manifesto for this age of the image.
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le = less-experienced audience
p = primary teaching
s = secondary teaching
t = tertiary teaching
a = adult teaching
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