32.2465, Books: The Gifted Language Learner: Moyer

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:20:46
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Gifted Language Learner: Moyer

 


Title: The Gifted Language Learner 
Subtitle: A Case of Nature or Nurture? 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/gifted-language-learner-case-nature-or-nurture?format=PB 


Author: Alene Moyer

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108482691 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 89.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108482691 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 69.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108482691 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 81.69
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108710862 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 28.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108710862 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 21.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108710862 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 25.66


Abstract:

Language learners beyond early childhood are scarcely expected to reach
native-like abilities in their new language, yet some do. Are these
individuals uniquely gifted? If so, are such gifts innate, or the result of
intense drive, optimal experience, opportunity, or something else altogether?
Bringing together theory and empirical work from across disciplines, this
ground-breaking book aims to better understand the perennial mystery of
giftedness in language learning (GLL). Incorporating quantitative,
qualitative, and case study data, this analysis demonstrates the need to reach
across cognitive, neural, emotional, psychological, and social lines to
understand native-likeness in a second language. All such 'outliers' face
limits, potentials, and choices. What they do in the face of these is key.
With this complexity in mind, specific recommendations are provided to
re-orient the research toward an appreciation of the individual's role, and a
clearer understanding of the inherent balance of nature and nurture in GLL.
 



Introduction; 1. Giftedness, then and now; 2. The gifted language learner, 3.
Personality dimensions in GLL; 4. Neurological and cognitive foundations of
GLL; 5. Emotion, cognition and engagement in GLL; 6. Paths forward in theory
and research.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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