An Examination of Gifted Children’s Interests in Foreign Language Depending on Their Extraordinary Characteristics

An Examination of Gifted Children’s Interests in Foreign Language Depending on Their Extraordinary Characteristics

Cetinkaya , Caglar
Bayrakcı , Mustafa

Gifted children have many specific characteristics such as mental and developmental. One of the area in which gifted children having difference from their peers in terms of especially mental skills have demonstrated their difference is to think extraordinarily (Çağlar, 2004). According to Sak (2010), gifted people are the ones having extraordinary characteristics. This study will be carried out with fifty gifted students under auspices of Eurasian Special Needs Education Research Association (ENSERA) in 2011. The study is descriptive model. Qualitative research methods are going to be used in order to collect data in the study. The data collected with semi-structured interview technique will be analyzed by using content analysis method. The second foreign languages that the gifted children want to learn will be determined with the result of analysis. Besides, the reasons of why they want to learn that language and the evaluation of their learning these languages in terms of extraordinary characteristics will be examined.

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2012-05-04

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