English Teaching: Practice and Critique
The challenge of learning disability in the Hong Kong English classroom
Arthur Firkins (The Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University-Sydney)
Addressing the needs of students with learning
difficulties in the mainstream English classroom in Hong Kong is a
major challenge for a range of reasons, including a lack of research
into the topic. This narrative suggests that such students are likely
to be experiencing difficulty in a number of subject areas, and that a
collaborative approach is an effective way of designing strategies to
help them. This narrative further reports on an action research
project, which has begun the task of developing strategies to meet the
needs of this group of students and their teachers.