Alene Moyer is Professor Emerita in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Maryland. Her research examines long-term outcomes in second language acquisition. Her previous books include Foreign Accent: The Phenomenon of Non-native Speech (2013) and Age, Accent and Experience in Second Language Acquisition (2004).

Introduction; 1. Giftedness, then and now; 2. The gifted language learner, 3. Personality dimensions in GLL; 4. Neurological and cognitive foundations of GLL; 5. Emotion, cognition and engagement in GLL; 6. Paths forward in theory and research.