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Learning Disabilities and Foreign‐Language Difficulties: Deficit in Listening Skills?

Journal of Reading Writing and Learning Disabilities International, 1986
This study examined case studies of four college students with suspected learning disabilities who were experiencing severe problems learning a foreign language. Characteristics of the students and types of problems they encountered in a foreign language were described, drawn from interviews, observations, and diagnostic test results.
Richard Sparks, Leonore Ganschow
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Addressing the U.S. Foreign Language Deficit—The Campaign for Foreign Languages

2016
It is essential to reverse the U.S. foreign language deficit, and in order to do so, a strategic social marketing campaign is needed. The attention given to the multiple stakeholders in what has been referred to as the language enterprise partnership is of the greatest importance, because the need for foreign language skills exists across all sectors ...
Kathleen Stein-Smith
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The Extent and Impact of the U.S. Foreign Language Deficit

2016
The foreign language deficit has had a negative impact on our economic and national security, and on the careers of many monolingual English-speaking Americans. In addition, it negatively impacts the ability of many Americans to enjoy world languages and cultures to the fullest, at home or during travel, and to effectively navigate local multilingual ...
Kathleen Stein-Smith
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The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit

2016
Kathleen Stein-Smith
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2 The Impact of Native Language Learning Problems on Foreign Language Learning: Case Study Illustrations of the Linguistic Coding Deficit Hypothesis

2022
Richard L. Sparks, Leonore Ganschow
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It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over: On Foreign Language Anxiety, First Language Deficits, and the Confounding of Variables

Modern Language Journal, 2000
Elaine K Horwitz
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DEVELOPMENT OF READING LITERACY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND ATTENTION DEFICIT AND HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER CHILDREN

Psychological Applications and Trends, 2022
"The main purpose of the article is to discuss how children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) develop reading literacy in a foreign language. Usually, foreign language methodologies and instruction in foreign language education are specifically designed for the majority of learners who have the capacities and abilities to ...
Silvia Hvozdíková, Eva Stranovská
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METHODOLOGICAL DEFICITS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AT UNIVERSITY

Научное мнение, 2023
The aim of this paper is to study the methodological deficits in teaching foreign languages in university. The current approaches in foreign language teaching and their key characteristics are described. Possible methodological deficits and the ways to overcome them with the help of ICT technologies are discussed.
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Identifying Native Language Deficits in High‐ and Low‐Risk Foreign Language Learners in High School

Foreign Language Annals, 1992
ABSTRACT  This study compared low and high risk first‐year high school foreign language learners on measures of cognitive, foreign language, and native language performance. Low risk learners were those who had made an A or B in the first‐quarter foreign language course, were identified by their foreign language teacher as good language learners, and ...
Richard L. Sparks, Leonore Ganschow, James Javorsky, Jane Pohlman, John Patton   +4 more
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Strategies for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to a Student With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Case Study in the Ecuadorian Context

Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Ver´´onica Espinoza-Celi
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