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Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary; Balfour, Robert J. – Language Teaching, 2019
South Africa's history of segregation and the privileging of English and Afrikaans as the only languages of teaching and learning beyond primary schooling, make the post-apartheid period a complex one, especially in light of the Constitutional commitment to multilingualism in the 11 official languages. Research on literacy and language teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Biedron, Adriana; Pawlak, Miroslaw – Language Teaching, 2016
This state-of-the art paper focuses on the issue of linguistic giftedness, somewhat neglected in the second language acquisition (SLA) literature, attempting to reconceptualize, expand and update this concept in response to latest developments in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neurology. It first discusses contemporary perspectives on…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Gifted, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies