Dyslexic University Students (Case Study of First Year EFL Students at Abou Bakr Belkaid University of Tlemcen-Algeria).

Abstract

Dyslexia is one of the existing Learning Disabilities (LD) that many English Foreign Language Students (EFL) confronted in their studies. The objectives of this study are introducing, correcting misunderstanding and shading lights on a very intriguing topic such as ‘dyslexia’ which has close relationship to learning EFL. The researchers tried to give a bird's eye view of dyslexia and its types in relation to our sample, in addition to other common problems dyslexic students may face and strategies used by teachers to help overcome them. This also attempts on finding out the background information on the topic of first year EFL students at Abou Bakr Belkaid university of Tlemcen, and some EFL teachers as well as a case study relying on a number of research instruments for data collection: questionnaire (one for students and the other for teachers.), and classroom observation. The data collected were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The collected information obtained from the data analysis, interpretation, and discussion of the results revealed a close relationship between dyslexia and many signs EFL 1st year students have, which needs to be diagnosed professionally to determine whether it is dyslexia they have, or the signs are from another reason ( for example: anxiety). At the end, some recommendations were presented to better arrange a classroom with dyslexic students.