For the Dyslexics learning English as a foreign or a second language
A foreign language should be taught directly as a whole
language using an audio-visual multi-sensory approach.
The material must be carefully structured and graded
with a lot of varied repetition. Then, if a language is
taught in this way, even the dyslexic learner may find
learning another language not only possible, but
rewarding. When learning a different language, which
may sometimes have an entirely different alphabet, the
dyslexic learner may turn a new leaf in life. S/He may
even become a better reader in the foreign language (in
this case -English) than in her/his mother tongue.
This has happened to many Dyslexic Israelis whose
mother tongue is Hebrew which has an entirely different
alphabet written from right to left and hardly any vowel
system. It happened to them while learning English with
the GAME Method.
For English speaker dyslexics
If the student has learnt to read her/his mother tongue
and failed, GAME may offer him a second chance. This
time the material and the person her/himself, not a
teacher, will make it possible for him to learn to read.
The English speaking child may be able to cope with the
reading of her/his mother tongue almost by her/himself
on the basis of the pictures and the growing knowledge
of the letters.
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Last Update: 24/12/99
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