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Peer reviewedBrickman, William W. – Roeper Review, 1988
Educators are urged to encourage gifted/talented students to teach themselves foreign languages. This essay discusses the lack of language requirements in schools, linguistic insensitivity or laziness shown by Americans, individuals' linguistic potential, goals of multilingual development, the appropriate time to introduce foreign languages, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Independent Study
