The ict and esl students with dyslexia

Abstract

Technological tools have become one of the main virtual teaching materials due to the pandemic of Covid 19. There are several technological tools which help to practice and improve the English language in children with disabilities and can be used to promote active interaction between students and teacher. The main objective of this research is to analyze the influence of ICT in ESL students with dyslexia in the seventh grade of elementary school at the "Blaise Pascal" Educational Unit. This was a descriptive research with a mixed approach in a qualitative and quantitative design to a group of 5 students with an A1 level of English. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the study was conducted virtually through the Microsoft teams platform. The experiment was applied in 8 sessions to meet the objective of this work, the students took a pre and post test PET designed by Cambridge for the data analysis was performed using a T-student for paired means in SPSS software. Finally, the results showed that there was an influence of the use of ICT in ESL students with dyslexia. Therefore, it was concluded that the use of technological tools will help not only students with disabilities but all students in this era of virtual classrooms.