EFL in Education Planning for Visually Impaired in Egypt: an Experimental Case Study

The current study is an experiment for a new method of planning for English as a foreign language for total visual impaired learners in Egypt on a narrow scale, testing this aspect through an English course taught by the researcher under the supervision of Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport for visually impaired learners in Alexandria. The constitutional aim is examining the applicability of a certain kind of planning for this kind of learners and measuring its success through observing the linguistic progress in EFL learning after this process exemplified in this course and these learners established on a previous study done by the same researcher, in an attempt to come up with a planning for EFL learning for visually impaired in Egypt framework. The process is tackled and conducted using two parallel models; on the planning level; some selected features of Mezzo-Model of analysis in Education planning by Kaplan and Baldauf (1997) customized by the researcher to suit the data and on the linguistic analysis level; Harmer (1986) model of analyzing causes of errors are applied to categorize and decompose the reasons behind the most frequent errors. The researcher then includes the findings that indicate apparent pronunciation errors which illustrate the need for allocating extra time for listening and speaking activities and practice inside and outside the classroom. The researcher suggests that further researches shall be conducted to be able to provide the complete picture of this kind of planning. As a contribution, the researcher proposes a course outline that suits visually impaired EFL learners along with a sample lesson plan.