ELTWeekly Issue#81
Word of the week: Realia Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Module 11, Individual Learner Differences Susan Ryan’s Tip: ‘Linking in English Pronunciation’ Research Paper: ‘Reading Disability – A…
#81, Word of the week: Realia
Realia are real things that are brought to the class and used as a resource. Example The learners are learning to describe clothes. In turn, they describe someone in the…
#81, Research Paper: ‘Reading Disability – A specific blockage in Language Learning: An Overview of the problem and Suggestions for the Follow-up studies’ by Vaishali Shivkumar
Vaishali Shivkumar (M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.) works as Lecturer & District Coordinator (English Language Laboratory)
at Z. F. Wadia Women’s College & N. K. Jhota College of Commerce, Surat- Gujarat.
“A learning disability refers to retardation, disorder, or delayed development in one or more of the processes of speech, language, reading, writing, arithmetic, or other school subject resulting from a psychological handicap caused by a possible cerebral dysfunction and / or behavioral disturbances. It is not the result of mental retardation, sensory deprivation, or cultural and instructional factors.”