English is fun! Volume 2

Learning a new language is a process that involves several different factors: the linguistic context in which learning takes place, the distance (in terms of similarities and differences) between the foreign language and the mother tongue, the characteristics of the student who is learning. For students with SLD, the acquisition of a second language is even more complex and there are severe difficulties in learning English, often in connection with difficulties in learning the Italian language.

Based on these findings, English is fun! – Vol. 2 was created.  It proposes a useful intervention programme for all students, aimed in particular at supporting and developing emotional-relational aspects to be used as a lever for learning in pupils with learning difficulties.

The book is organized into 6 areas regarding the cognitive and metacognitive processes of learning a second language:

• Metacognition and motivation (Area M)
• Phonological awareness (Area CF)
• Reading and Writing (Area L)
• Learning Vocabulary (Area V)
• Learning Grammar (Area G)
• Comprehension and production (Area CP).

Aimed at pupils in the last two years of primary school and pupils in middle school, this book is a valid teaching support tool, providing language teachers with useful operational ideas to put the most effective learning strategies into practice.