Methodical features of foreign language teaching to linguistically gifted students of non-linguistic specialties: Foreign experience

Abstract

The relevance of the problem under investigation is caused by the fact that the issue of gifted students’ education is one of the most difficult and interesting aspects of contemporary Russian and foreign pedagogy. Nowadays working with gifted students appears as an important and priority educational policy worldwide. The analysis of the research literature shows that the problem of talented students is constantly attracts the attention of educators and psychologists. The purpose of the article is to reveal conditions and factors, forms and methods of development of gifted students’ abilities including linguistically gifted students of non-linguistic specialties. The article gives a detailed analysis of classroom work, extracurricular activities and independent forms of work. The author focuses on the specifics of working with gifted students, as well as on the analysis of foreign associations’ activities, projects and programs. The leading approach to the study of this problem is a method of historical and logical analysis of regulatory documents of foreign governments and research papers of leading scientists dealing with gifted education issues. The main result of the study is the identification of the forms for the learning organization that promote creative achievements of linguistically gifted students. The materials of the article can be used in different researches and will be interesting for a wide range of readers dealing with the problems of teacher training for work with gifted students.