[1] Language coaching supports the acquisition of foreign languages but incorporates principles, models and competencies from the field of coaching.
Language coaching therefore has a strong emphasis on metacognitive practice.
Metacognition is also valuable to language learners but it is definitive and fundamental to coaching, encompassing, for example, strategy and goal setting, action planning, and goal review.
Language coaching typically supports coachees to refine second-language communicative proficiency for workplace performance.
Some language coaches are sought for document review and copyediting.