to Learners with Special Educational Needs

Pokrivčáková, S. et al. (2015). Teaching Foreign Languages to Learners with Special Educational Needs:
e-textbook for foreign language teachers. Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher University. 128 p.
ISBN 978-80-558-0941-0
Introduction
The e-textbook Teaching Foreign Languages to Learners with Special Educational Needs is the
last of the series of three modern university textbooks/methodological manuals for teachertraining
courses provided by the Department of Language Pedagogy and Intercultural Studies at
the Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra which came to
existence as results of the project KEGA 036UKF-4/2013 “Creating textbooks and multimedia
courses for a new study programme as a means of internationalization of foreign language
teacher training” funded by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic. The textbook is
accompanied by the interactive Moodle course.
Teaching foreign languages to learners with special educational needs (SENs) has become
one of the top challenges of contemporary foreign language education and its methodology. It is
the main reason why future and in-practice teachers should be well informed about various
SENs and the principles how to teach and support SEN learners in foreign language classes.
The authors – university teachers and teacher trainers - wrote their chapters with an
intention to modernise and up-date both the content and methodology of the contemporary
teacher-training courses.
Authors
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