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On Thursday, 3 April 2025 Faculty of Education University of Ljubljana organised the Roundtable Discussion, part of ERASMUS+ project SPLENDID (SuPporting foreign Language lEarNing for stuDents wIth Disabilities), which brought together the University of Macedonia, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg PHHD, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin-KUL in Poland, and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

The project aims to empower language teachers to work with different groups of students with disabilities in every classroom. Through the project, we are developing and testing different good practices for efficient teaching of foreign languages to students with disabilities.

The roundtable discussion focused on:
different perspectives on special educational needs as currently applied across European countries, with a particular focus on dyslexia;
the specific challenges of language learning for individuals with dyslexia and best practices to support them;
the future of inclusive language education.

Guest speakers:

Dr. Judit Kormos, a Hungarian linguist and a professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, renowned for her work on motivation in second language learning and self-regulation in second language writing.

Dr Karmen Pižorn, the Dean and a full professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, an expert in foreign language teaching methodology, language assessment and teaching languages to students with specific learning differences.

Dr Milena Košak Babuder, an associated professor of Special and Rehabilitation Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana; an expert on the inclusion of students with specific learning difficulties in all classrooms, including learning English as a foreign language.