Teaching “Reading and writing skills” to dyslexic students in english classrooms: Challenges and strategies

Language learning is a difficult process and there are many challenges for the students or learners while learning a new language in classrooms. Some learners learn it without much difficulty but some learners cannot. Moreover, some students with dyslexia face a lot of problems while learning a new language. Dyslexia is a condition or disorder affecting the brain that makes it difficult for someone to read and write and causes a person‘s inability. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which resists conventional teaching methods. Verbal memory and processing difficulties, typically associated with dyslexia, as well as other frequently cooccurring disorders require the adoption of a number of additional strategies for the teaching of reading and writing to learners with dyslexia. The choice of particular teaching methods should take into account both the learner's weaknesses and strengths. Such individually adapted teaching makes the successful inclusion of learners with dyslexia possible in the mainstream classroom. In English classrooms also, teachers face many problems while teaching or training dyslexic learners. Teachers need to encourage group work and peer coaching and also focus on the adoption of materials which help the dyslexic learners in English language classrooms. Motivation is also one of the factors that helps the learners learn a language easily. This paper explores the challenges faced by English teachers while teaching the dyslexic learners. It also focuses on the different strategies to be adopted by teachers to train them well.