Modern languages and special educational needs: a review of research |
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| Authors: | John Salters Peter Neil Margaret Wright |
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| Institution: | Centre for Modern Language Teaching , School of Education, The Queen's University of Belfast , Belfast BT7 1NN , Northern Ireland |
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| Abstract: | The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 requires that all pupils of secondary school age should have equal access to a broad and balanced curriculum. The inclusion of language studies within the statutory framework of the Northern Ireland curriculum has led to a significant expansion in the teaching of modern languages to pupils with special educational needs. Many teachers are now faced with the task of teaching pupils who hitherto would have been excluded from the language department and some teachers in special schools now have to teach a language with which they themselves are unfamiliar. This paper is the first stage of a research and development project funded by the Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (NICCEA); it examines some research evidence relating to the challenge of teaching languages to pupils with special educational needs. |
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| Keywords: | modern foreign languages special educational needs |
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