Is it ESL, Special Needs or ESL with Special Educational Needs?: A critical review of the literature focusing on second language acquisition disordersPaperback, 18 September 2018

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Pedagogy - Orthopaedagogy and Special Education, grade: -, Charles Darwin University, language: English, abstract: Recent studies have suggested that the limited research literature that is devoted to second language acquisition disorders for students with special educational needs can be categorized into two clear polarizing views, being firstly; clinical representation of the disorders and secondly classroom interventional strategies and curriculum adaption. Neither camp seeks to acknowledge the importance of the role the other plays. This is an extremely unfortunate situation as the theoretical literature, the most common place educators and parents seek out assistance to help the learner, is a gallimaufry of ideas, for the most part, which do not draw upon clinical research data as it is more often than not presented and worded in a way that makes it inaccessible to those without a deep knowledge of linguistics or medical terminology. Future research in this area would benefit from a more 'user friendly' cross-discipline approach.