Giftedness and English Teaching in Primary Education: Intervention Proposal

Abstract

A gifted child is that whose intellectual quotient is superior to 130. Although it is unusual to find one of these children in classrooms, around the 4% of the school students are gifted. Many of them are not identified as such and thus do not receive the educative assistance that they need. If this happens, these children can reach the point of feeling so bored and demotivated at school that their academic output becomes rather low and their intellectual potential will not be developed. To prevent this, teachers have to be prepared to identify this intellectual phenomenon and attend the needs of this type of students correctly. In the present Project, the characteristics of these children will be described with the purpose of facilitating their identification and, furthermore, I will offer an intervention proposal focused on the English area as a second language which attends their needs.