1 English Department, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Teachers’ Training, Siliwangi University 2014 THE ANALYSIS OF ACCOMMODATIONS FOR DYSLEXIC YOUNG LEARNER IN TAARE ZAMEEN PAR FILM BY AAMIR KHAN Arief Nugraha (ariefnugraha35@gmail.com) Universitas Silliwangi Tasikmalaya Indonesia Abstract: Dyslexia is one of the learning disabilities that makes the persons living with it difficult to learn language especially spelling, reading, and writing. Therefore, a language teacher dealing with dyslexics needs to find ways to fulfil their special needs. One of the efforts is by giving them special treatments or accommodations. A film entitled Taare Zameen Par can inspire the language teacher dealing with the dyslexics as it gives an overview of how accommodations can help the teacher to overcome the learning problem possessed by the dyslexic students. Through observing the film, the data are found in the form of teacher’s activities. The analysis of the data is based on the theory stated by Schneider, Elke and Margaret Crombie (2003) about kinds of accommodations for dyslexics. It is found that the accommodations occur in the film are Personal Motivation, Multi- Sensory Technique, Structure, Overlearning, and Metacognition. The principles of each accommodation are conducted through several activities such as writing on the sand, drawing letters, guessing letters while closing eyes, making letters from wax, and making 8 symbol on the graph blackboard. Those accommodations are conducted to overcome several problems possessed by the nine years old dyslexic learner such as the low self-esteem, stress, letter recognition, spelling, reading, and handwriting. INTRODUCTION Dyslexia belongs to learning disabilities occur in the process of person learning language. Learning disability or learning difficulty refers to a condition in which the labelled persons possess several difficulties in learning. Rief and Stern (2010: 4) state that the basic difficulties possessed by dyslexics are reading and spelling skill occurring when they are learning language. Commonly, the problems appear because they are difficult to process the speech sounds within words and to connect the sounds forming a word referring certain meaning. Besides that, Beaton (2005:156) defines dyslexia as learning disorder dealing with the difficulties in receptive and expressive language. In receptive language, dyslexics need more attention from their teacher to read easily because they cannot easily deal with letters connecting a word and words forming a sentence. Whereas in expressive language, they needs more guidance to deal with their spelling and writing because they have not recognize speech sounds very well. Those difficulties come with causes, Nijakowska (2010:34) states that genetic is the most influencing factor. It determines the development of certain language system of the left hemisphere of the brain. Besides that, the environment where the persons learn to read can also be the consideration. The previous research conducted by Kateřina Ševčíková (2012) shows that 92% teachers of a language school in Brno use Communicative Approach as the teaching approach to overcome dyslexics’ problems. Whereas, to be more specific, the steps in accommodating dyslexic young learner are directly presented in this research based on the teacher’s activities shown in the film entitled Taare Zameen Par by Aamir Khan.