Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Special Needs Learners

For English Language Teachers who teach to special needs learners, Nowadays, the new trends of Teaching English as a foreign Language (EFL) mainly focus on Learners with Special needs because this category of language learners need enough care in Education generally, and learning English language particularly. Imagine yourself a language teacher with no knowledge and expertise of teaching EFL to special needs learners. Also, suppose you were appointed in a Special Needs School, or you were assigned to teach English in a mainstream classroom (with mixed abilities), what would you do? Therefore, this book is mainly designed for you in order to:1. Recognize the nature of difficulties that special needs learners encounter while learning EFL2. Differentiate between language learners with learning disabilities and language learners with learning difficulties3. Use the effective language teaching strategies successfully to teach EFL to Special needs learners with language difficulties in Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Phonology, Morphology, and Grammar 4. Differentiate the teaching strategies to suit all the language learners in the mixed abilities (Mainstream) classrooms