高级班：Students with Learning Disabilities Can Learn New Languages（一）

Students with Learning Disabilities Can Learn New Languages（一）有学习障碍的学生可以学一门新语言 A learning disability is a condition that makes learning difficult.学习障碍指的是一种学习困难的情况。 The National Center for Education Statistics says that 13.8 percent of students learning English in the United States have a disability. 国家教育数据中心显示，美国有13.8%的学生有学习障碍。 People with learning disabilities can have trouble reading, writing, spelling or understanding texts. 有学习障碍的学生，在读、写、拼写和理解文章上面都有困难。 Disabilities can be mild or severe.这种障碍可以是轻微的或者严重的。 They may have a hard time processing sounds or calculating numbers. 他们在处理声音与算数上都很困难。 Stein is a professor at California State University in Los Angeles.She is an English language teacher who works with students struggling to read. Stein 是洛杉机加利福尼亚州立大学的教授。她是一位英语老师，她的工作是教育那些有阅读困难的学生。 She said students with mild learning disabilities need to "develop the love for reading" in order to read better.她认为有轻微阅读障碍的学生如果要更好地阅读，就需要“培养对阅读的热爱”。 the students should choose what they want to read whether it is comics or books about animals.学生要先择自己想要读什么，无论是漫画还是动物方面的书都可以。 "If what you are going to do is expose the kid to a vocabulary word one time, then that vocabulary word is not going to stick," she said.她说，如果你只是想让孩子接触一次生词，那肯定会记不住的。