Laura Marcela Mejia

The learning of a foreign language with students with dyslexia of primary school

Specifying a problem: in the school many times the teachers don’t pay attention to create different strategies of work with the students that have language`s problem like the dyslexia and it difficult the learning in all the ages but now I want to do a research according to how is the learning of the students with dyslexia in the primary school.

Justifying it: the learning of a foreign language sometimes is difficult for the kids and so much when they can to have language`s problems like the dyslexia that isn’t common in the classrooms but now is more easy found this cases and is necessary create a strategy that can help to better the learning of the students.

Suggesting the need to study it: the learning in the actual world must to be related with the different ways of learning of the students and their inclusion when they have language`s problem, many times the dyslexia is see like anything passing but it must to be study from the start of the learning of the students for to facilitate the performance don’t only in English also in different subjects.

The knowledge about dyslexia is a little confused because many times the people do stigmatization of that it is a  disease but really it is only a language´s problem that need to be worked with different methodology but necessarily need a early diagnostic.

In fact exist only a style or a only a kind  of dyslexia? The need of to research and to know if some child have dyslexia many times is centred only in the methodology that you can to work for to improve the learning quality leave to a side important facts that differences between the different students with dyslexia and their behavior, for many students with this learning´s problem is a challenge to learn a new language but for other students it can to be impossible for it is necessary to do a deep research about the topic for to can establish methodologies of learning or concepts about if is important or necessary the learning of new languages.

Choosen literature

Understood.org. (2019). Learning a Foreign Language with Dyslexia. [Online] Available at: https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/learning-a-foreign-language-with-dyslexia [Accessed 14 Feb. 2019].
The dyslexia can to be a trouble or a empowering in the moment of to learn a new language for it in this article we find the different points positives and negatives of this process of learning with a language`s problem showing different strategies that can help to the teachers.

Cimermanova, I. (2019). 3 Teaching English as a foreign English language to dyslexic learners.

Dyslexia should be perceived as a different learning ability rather than as a disability is the concept that we can find about this language’s problem.

SMARTS. (2019). Should Students with Dyslexia Take a Foreign Language? - SMARTS. [Online] Available at: https://smarts-ef.org/blog/students-dyslexia-take-foreign-language/ [Accessed 14 Feb. 2019].

In this article find different points of view talking about it is possible that a student with dyslexia can to have the possibility of learning a new language and doing a chart between two different research’s that explain why is advisable and why isn’t good.

Research questions

1. The dyslexia really interfere in the learning´s process of a new language and it must to be excluded of the learning of child with it learning´s problem?
2.  The people know what is it learning´s problem?
3.   Actually the state have programs that train to the teachers for to can know how to work with students that have dyslexia?

QUESTIONNAIRE

   Nombre: __________________ Ocupacion: ________________ Edad: ________

1.  Que lengua extranjera esta estipulada en el proyecto educativo nacional en Colombia como requisito del ministerio de educación? ____________________________________________________________________
2. Que es una dificultad de aprendizaje?__________________________________________________________________________
3.    Conoce que dificultades de aprendizaje puede tener un estudiante? ____________________________________________________________________
4.   Sabe usted que es dislexia? _________________________________________________________
5. Conoce algún estudiante con esta dificultad de aprendizaje?   SI   NO
6.    Si su respuesta es afirmativa usted sabe si el estudiante recibe alguna ayuda en su proceso de aprendizaje. SI  NO  
7.  Cual? ____________________________________________________________________
8.  Considera que una persona con dislexia puede aprender de la misma manera que una persona sin dificultades de aprendizaje? SI  NO  PORQUE? ___________________________________________________________________
9.    Pensaría usted que los estudiantes con esta dificultad deberían aprender una lengua extranjera?  SI  NO  PORQUE? ___________________________________________________________________
10.  Consideraria  la dislexia como enfermedad?  SI  NO  PORQUE? ____________________________________________________________________

EVIDENTIAL 

Analysis Chart questionnaire

* Each number is the position of the last questions in the questionnaire

	1	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.	10.
Laura Gómez	ingles	Es cuando el estudiante no puede aprender	Falta de atención en clase	Si	Si	Si	Apoyo en las tareas por particular	si	si	no
Myriam Martinez	ingles	No se le facilita el aprendizaje	Dislexia, discalculia, disortografía	Si	Si	Si	Tiene proceso por terapia ocupacional y fonoaudiológica además de acompañamiento de otra docente	si	si	no
Sara Echeverria	ingles	Un problema al aprender	Falta de atención en clase	No	No	No	Ninguna	si	si	no
Cesar Monroy	ingles	Es una falta que tiene el estudiante al aprender	Dislexia, discalculia	Si	No	No	Ninguna	si	si	no
Valeria Mejía	ingles	No se	No entiende lo que dice el profesor	No	No	No	Ninguna	si	si	no
Paula Medina	ingles	Es cuando un niño no aprende bien	Dislexia	Si	No	No	Ninguna	si	si	no
Mary Luz Paipa	ingles	Es una discapacidad	Problemas de aprendizaje	No	No	No	Ninguna	no	no	si
Valentina Trujillo	ingles	Es un problema al aprender	No entiende en clase	No	No	No	Ninguna	no	no	si
Nicol García	ingles	No he escuchado nada de eso	Ninguna	No	No	No	Ninguna	si	si	si
Cristian Ramos	ingles	Es un problema al aprender y entender	No se me el nombre, pero muchos	Si	Si	No	ninguna	si	si	no

   According with the information that we see in the last chart 10 people participated in the  interview where they have clear the position about the  foreign language that is stipulated in Colombia affording the educative project where the implementation of the bilingualism is a new challenge for the teacher and the education in Colombia  that is the English , but we have a whole in the knowledge of learning disorders that in the actuality is more common than before and it is a great problem because it is impacting in the process of learning of new generations that need new methods of work for to can improve with this disabilities.

              

GRAPHIC 1

Analyzing the graphic 1 I can to observe that the middle of the population to know what is it problem language but really it isn’t sufficient for to can start to implement new methodology and new changes to the education about of the different learning´s problem and the majority of they don’t have cases near that really a doctor or a teacher have establish because in the moment it is seeing like a problem of the classroom or of the teacher  or the partners.

  GRAPHIC 2 

 Like we can to see in the graphic 2 the interviewee have the perception of that the learning of a person that have Dyslexia is same to the way that a person without learning´s  for it we can to analyze that  lack many conscientious of this problem of learning  is so high and it can to be reflect in the low academic performance of some students. 

Discussion

Reviewing the data that I can to find through the interview I think that it is necessary that all the people start to learn about the learning´s problem like the dyslexia, dyscalculia, Auditory Processing Disorder, Dysgraphia, Language Processing Disorder, Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities, Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Deficit, ADHD, Dyspraxia, Executive Functioning, Memory between others that can to affect the knowledge of our students or children and we don´t have the methodology necessary for this cases and we teach of the same way obtaining low performances in the majority of cases.

Talking and analyzing my topic of the research the DYSLEXIA I think that it is a specific learning disability that affects reading and related language-based processing skills and in the serious cases can to affect reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling, and sometimes speech and can exist along with other related disorders but really the learning of a foreign language isn’t impossible only the teacher, the students and the parents must to be in the process during more time and with more dedication using strategies like Use books on tape, Use multi-sensory teaching methods and others being attend of our children and the possible symptoms that can show like Reads slowly and painfully, May have difficulty with handwriting, decoding real words is better than nonsense words between others