DEVELOPING COMPUTER ASSISTED READING MATERIALS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH TO PAKISTANI MAINSTREAM SCHOOL DYSLEXIC STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY LEVEL
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2023
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UMT, Lahore
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The present study aims to develop and gauge the impact of indigenously developed computer assisted reading materials, based on the reading problems, reading needs and effective teaching strategies as perceived by the English language teachers and guardians of Pakistani mainstream school dyslexic students, on their English language performance. Four lessons from Punjab Textbook Board‘s English of class VI were purposively selected and the materials were developed under the guidance of Mayer (2005)‘s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. Reading disability checklist was used for the screening of dyslexic students and the purposively selected thirty students were further divided in two (control and experimental) groups homogenously. The control group continued learning through conventional methodology whereas the experimental group was taught through these materials for six weeks.