Teaching Multiple Intelligences In The Classroom

Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to analyze how the needs of the students will be met, while researching how to teach. Nowadays, students of the entire world are learning English, but their reasons are different from student to student. The purpose that students have for learning will have an effect on what they want and need to learn . In this essay, the needs of the student Paola Jovanna Alfaro Rios will be discussed, her motivation to study English, her learning style will be describe as well as her weakness in English and also how to solve some of them.

Student background: Paola is an 18 years old girl, she is finishing her last semester in high school. Paola was born in Guadalajara Mexico and her first language is

The results of a questionnaire that Paola completed, My true Intelligence (adapted from Armstrong Thomas, “Teaching Multiple Intelligences In the Classroom”, 1994) shows that the stronger abilities in the student are logical-mathematical, musical, Bodily Kinesthetic and Interpersonal. According to ITTO textbook a description of each of these learning styles are; a logical-mathematical intelligence allows the student to solve logical problems, puzzles and games, the student can also make quantifications and calculations easily. Having a Musical Intelligence is for those students who like music in general sometimes students find easily to sing with lyrics, identify streets or accentuation in exercises or do fill in the blank exercises. In the case of Kinesthetic Bodily intelligence, the students have the ability to express themselves using body movements; the best word to describe this action is ‘Motion’. The students who have an Interpersonal intelligence are capable of listening to other people and establish a good relationship with them; activities in group are highly effective for them.

Learning Approach: According with the learning style of Paola, and the skills that she has, the English language teaching approach that best fit for her is the communicative approach, this approach is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning . The purpose of this approach is to apply

The target language will be the use of connectors. The objective is to help Paola to connect ideas successfully by establishing relationships between words or sentences. To accomplish this, the technique of teaching form, meaning and form will be used. First of all, the student will have time for writing what she did in her last vacation. Secondly, the student will know from the teacher some connectors, especially those who show contrast and addition, the difference between them will be clarified and also the use of punctuation. After that, the meaning of the connectors will be explained with examples; this will help the student to identify the reason why the connectors are helpful. Then the student will complete a grammar activity using connectors, this will be provided by the teacher. Finally, the student will use the connectors to express what she did in her last vacation, the student will have some time to write a paragraph and then she will read it. Additional material will be provided to Paola as an extensive learning such as web pages where she can keep practicing the use of connectors.

Conclusion:

In a conclusion, learning English as a second language is common in people who want to have more working opportunities. However their learning styles are not the same neither their motivation nor their social status, this is why teachers have to know their