Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1113554 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2014 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

Gifted children are a minority group in a society. Sometimes parents and teachers may have difficulty to realize gifted children. Discovering them in early ages is crucial for their education and meeting their needs. Their learning and thinking style are different and they can learn faster and easier than others. Second language acquisition in early ages is very important for children and they can learn many foreign languages with ease. There are many factors in language acquisition that make this process faster among the children and one of them is giftedness. Specially gifted children with advanced verbal skills may show many different characteristics than the other children. Such as early comprehension; asking weird questions; and making long sentences. In family parents and at schoolteachers should be aware of these skills and they should try to foster language development and second language acquisition. This article describes the characteristic of gifted children with advanced language skills and suggests solutions for the problems, which they face in second language learning.

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