Implementing special needs at different unversity institutional levels

What is it about?

Full chapter available: https://www.intechopen.com/books/second-language-acquisition-pedagogies-practices-and-perspectives/multidimensional-networks-for-functional-diversity-in-higher-education-the-case-of-second-language-e Higher education institutions need to organize multidimensional networks that pay attention to the different stages, events, and situations of the educational process. Furthermore, the ability to communicate that students with functional diversity develop in the foreign language classroom may become an instrumental competence that will become useful for other subjects as well as to respond to daily life challenges. The theoretical model proposed here acknowledges that there are two paradigms that coalesce into a defined educational model. On the one hand, the syntagmatic paradigm ensures that subjects offered in the educational programs are designed bearing in mind the needs of students with functional diversity and are flexible enough to accommodate those needs. On the other hand, the organizational paradigm relates the needs of the students and their teachers to institutional services and protocols.

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Why is it important?

Higher education institutions need to organize multidimensional networks that pay attention to the different stages, events, and situations of the educational process in relation to students with special needs. Following a case study, this chapter discusses the importance of each of the agents implied in the process.

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