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Insegnare le lingue a studenti gifted. Strategie didattiche per la plusdotazione
Teaching gifted students. Didactic strategies for intellectual giftedness

Author(s): Alberta Novello
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: giftedness; gifted students; language teaching; language learning; high potential;

Summary/Abstract: Teaching gifted children is an everyday challenge which needs to be won in order to avoid demotivation and school abandoning. In language teaching different strategies and techniques can be used to engage these particular kinds of students. This essay examines the main characteristics of gifted students as long as teacher’s attitudes towards them. In the following text, some procedures are explained to motivate and stimulate language learning in gifted students.

  • Issue Year: 16/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 109-119
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Italian