tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68048021047288205022024-03-13T17:22:20.614-07:00My English WorldI have a passion for my work. I'm an EFL teacher in Argentina and I'd love to share my reflections on teaching and professional development with other colleagues from all over the world. Luli del Marhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13389408090415025858noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804802104728820502.post-39204151853467017962015-06-28T15:25:00.002-07:002015-06-28T15:34:15.875-07:00DYSLEXIA in the EFL classroom - A lesson Plan<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Have you ever wondered: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2;">"Why does this student read so slowly?"
"Why can't I understand his handwriting?" "Why does he have so
many spelling mistakes?" "Why can't he finish the activities at the
same time the others do?"</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Well, there's a slight chance this student might
have Dyslexia, or some kind of Specific Learning Difference (SpLD).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">A few years ago, there was this
particular Dyslexic student at school who did everything he could and even more
to improve his performance. He would rewrite his notes over and over again, in
a desperate attempt to make his handwriting a little bit legible. He just
couldn’t make it. It was useless…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Whenever I invited any of my
Dyslexic students to read aloud, they did it – all of them made great efforts
to please me. However, you could easily see how self-conscious and exposed they
felt… I thought I was helping them! Eventually, a lady in her late thirties
asked me – in private – not to call her for reading aloud in front of the
others, for she realized this made her more nervous, and as a consequence, she
read even worse. I understood then I hadn’t been helping her, because I hadn’t
considered the fact that I was only reinforcing her feeling of low self-esteem.
I think the problem might be that we EFL teachers are always trying to treat
our students equally; therefore we don’t respect the differences that make them
unique. How unfair! Shame on us!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I’ve always identified severe
Dyslexic students easily, but I just didn’t know how to help them overcome their
obstacles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Only almost a year ago, while
attending the <i><a href="https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/X162-2">English Language Teachers’ Summer
Seminar</a></i> held at Exeter College, Oxford, did I find some insight on the
subject. One of the incredible tutors there, Mr. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2;"><a href="https://elt.oup.com/bios/elt/h/hird_j?cc=ar&selLanguage=en">Jon Hird</a></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">, gave us an inspiring lecture on
Dyslexia (available <a href="http://www.videorentsrl.it/Oxford/Hird/index.html">here</a>,
thanks, Jon!). Most of the things he pointed out during that presentation came
as complete revelations to me. It all made sense now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Last April, I attended the on-line
course </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2;"><a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/dyslexia/todo/1383">“Dyslexia and
Foreign Language Teaching”</a></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">, organized by Lancaster University. During four weeks
I finally got to understand a lot more about the amazing variety of
difficulties Dyslexic students may have when learning a foreign language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As part of the activities for
completing the course, I had to design a special lesson plan for Dyslexic
students. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I hope you find it useful and most
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Another unforgettable evening at Exeter College. Among the numerous social activities we had during the English Language Teachers' Summer Seminar, we all enjoyed the touching performance of "She", by Chord in the Act, conducted by our incredible tutor, Tim Herdon.Luli del Marhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13389408090415025858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804802104728820502.post-31558374364430161692015-02-16T07:54:00.000-08:002015-02-17T08:37:45.166-08:00My Headway Experience (Part 5)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">We got to Oxford at around 8 am. The chauffeur dropped me half a block from the entrance to Exeter College, on the corner of Turl and High Street. (Most of the streets in the downtown area in Oxford are pedestrian streets). I had to drag my suitcase for about 60 metres. Unfortunately, the College had no sign outside, so I went right past it and got to the corner of Turl and Broad Street. It was very early for the Tourist Information Office to be open, and even the shops on Broad Street were still closed.</span></div>
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<br />Luli del Marhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13389408090415025858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804802104728820502.post-83073048411383576562015-02-04T12:35:00.004-08:002015-02-06T07:00:16.807-08:00My Headway Experience (Part 3)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At least once a week I had something to attend to: answer emails with personal details, send my scanned passport, send an application form to Exeter College, keep in touch with Francesca, the nice girl who arranged my return flights, send a photo of me smiling, arrange my domestic flight and travel insurance, the list could go on and on. Although there were so many things to see to, I enjoyed every single one of them, for they reminded me of my scholarship. There wasn’t a day during those three months when I didn’t think of Oxford.</span><br />
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Luli del Marhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13389408090415025858noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804802104728820502.post-36306483524756302432015-02-03T11:32:00.001-08:002015-02-06T06:59:26.527-08:00My Headway Experience (Part 2)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.1500000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CONGRATULATIONS!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of Liz Soars and the Headway Scholarship Foundation, I’m delighted to tell you that you have been awarded one of the Headway Scholarships for 2014 which means that you are entitled to a place on the 2-week English Language Teachers’ Summer Seminar at Exeter College in Oxford. (</span><a href="https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=X162-2#pagetop" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=X162-2#pagetop</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></div>
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Luli del Marhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13389408090415025858noreply@blogger.com0Argentina-38.416097 -63.616671999999994-85.961851 -146.2338595 9.1296570000000017 19.000515500000006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804802104728820502.post-66462815597652832282015-02-03T06:00:00.000-08:002015-02-06T06:56:51.291-08:00My Headway Experience (Part 1)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.1500000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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