Multiple Intelligence Theory: English Language Teaching And Learning

Multiple Intelligence Theory is the wing wherewith we fly to classroom

Dr. D. Bellarmen

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government Arts and Science College, Pudukottai-622 302,Tamilnadu, India.

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About the Author

An accomplished Teacher from India with 21 years of demonstrated success in teaching English Language and Literature. He is an M.A. M.Phil. in English Literature and a Certificate holder in English Language Teaching from EFL University, Hyderabad. To add, his educational chronicle proceeds with Ph.D on English Language Teaching awarded by Bharathidasan University, Trichy.. The author has presented and published various papers on literature themes and on language teaching themes as well. His interests

These skills are the most important aspects of corporate communication. Effective communication creates a positive environment and influences one another. To enhance the status of speaking, the teaching profession needs to address these issues along with acknowledging the classroom procedures which foster interaction. Speaking and listening being interactive skills are considerably different from writing and reading. The former involve interpersonal communication where we are engaged face-to-face communication with one or with more other people. Multiple intelligence activities enable teachers to know their students and plan more effectively, in order to prepare them employable in the global market and empower them to demonstrate good communication skills such as speaking and

Multiple intelligences – The road to travel

MI theories have had the most appeal in the classroom as all the students have any one of the intelligences stated by Gardner. Probably, no one uses just one type of intelligence and they use several in their learning. MI theory is not a “type theory” for determining the one intelligence that fits. It is a theory of cognitive functioning, and it proposes that each person has capacities in all eight intelligences. (page15)

For example, a teacher in an English literature classroom needs to emphasize verbal intelligence while the same teacher switches over logical and mathematical intelligence in an engineering environment. The theories can perform as a conceptual frame work for improving speaking and listening skills while determining the learners’