Thank you. This has been very enlightening. I teach English in the French education system at secondary school level and have occasionally perceived what I thought were "auditory difficulties" in some pupils who are learning English and who have been diagnosed as dyslexic. They seem to have real trouble "visualising" sounds, articulating them, and memorising them. I was perplexed, but I think I understand a bit more clearly now and am better armed, I hope, to help those children.I am simultaneously working with native-English-speaking adolescents in French schools who are also  dyslexic. They share some of the problems of their fellow French pupils, but their difficulties may be compounded by an emotional reason for rejecting their native language.It's very difficult to be the teacher and the psychologist!When I taught EFL in private language schools many years ago, I never came across this problem...I had also read that there are statistically fewer dyslexics in Italy than in England, simply because Italian is a phonetic language. Too bad English has such importance.I wonder how text-messaging and dyslexia and EFL work together???