The Forgotten Language Skill: Finding a Prominent Place for Listening in Meaningful Programming for Multilingual Learners with Learning Disabilities

Authors

Tracy Griffin Spies, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-19-2023

Publication Title

Frontiers in Education

Volume

8

Abstract

Listening is the primary vehicle through which children learn, is fundamental to all other communication competencies, is a core component of multimodal instruction, and is key to learning language. At the same time, listening comprehension is the least understood language skill and is challenging for teachers in the provision of high quality instruction. For multilingual learners with learning disabilities it also presents certain challenges at the intersection of students’ disability and developing language proficiency. This article presents a conceptual analysis of listening comprehension across the perspectives of learning disability and second language acquisition in an effort to link disconnected understandings from the fields to address the intersectional needs of multilingual learners with disabilities. These findings are integrated into a framework of listening comprehension for multilingual learners with learning disabilities highlighting the cognitive and linguistic processes necessary for effective listening. Various examples of how to use the framework to plan multilingual learners with learning disabilities’ meaningful access to the general education curriculum are presented including its use in planning students’ individualized education plans.

Keywords

Listening Comprehension; Multilingual Learners; Students with Disabilities; Multilingual Learners with Learning Disabilities; Vocabulary; Morphology; Syntax; Oral Language

Disciplines

Accessibility | Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Disability Studies

File Format

pdf

File Size

4000 KB

Language

English

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Publisher Citation

Spies TG (2023) The forgotten language skill: finding a prominent place for listening in meaningful programming for multilingual learners with learning disabilities. Front. Educ. 8:1214535. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1214535

Repository Citation

Spies, T. G. (2023). The Forgotten Language Skill: Finding a Prominent Place for Listening in Meaningful Programming for Multilingual Learners with Learning Disabilities. Frontiers in Education, 8
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1214535