Accessible Language: Foreign Language Teaching Strategies for Blind and Visually Impaired Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/icadce-17.2017.143How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Foreign language teaching; visually impaired; accessible language teaching; foreign language for visually impaired; alternative teaching strategies
- Abstract
This paper focuses on the question of the accessibility of foreign language teaching strategies, techniques and resources for students with visual impairment. The main teaching activities are examined from the point of view of their adaptation to the needs of visually impaired students in the mixed inclusive language classroom. The main purpose of this article is to explain the major difficulties blind and visually impaired students encounter in their language learning process and offer activities that are beneficial not only for students with sight loss but for all the other students in the group. The article is addressed to the foreign language teachers who are obliged to include blind or visually impaired students in their classes.
- Copyright
- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Tatiana Belova PY - 2017/05 DA - 2017/05 TI - Accessible Language: Foreign Language Teaching Strategies for Blind and Visually Impaired Students BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 592 EP - 596 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icadce-17.2017.143 DO - 10.2991/icadce-17.2017.143 ID - Belova2017/05 ER -