tailieunhanh - Multiple Intelligences revisited

In the beginning of the course in April, I carried out my listening instruction by teaching vocabulary and grammar with repeated CD listening, focusing on listening to key- words. Then, after an actual TOEFL ITP test was conducted inside the school in June, my students’ negative reaction against the test led me to attempt new strategies applying conversational analysis to the study of TOEFL listening. A post-examination survey filled out after the actual TOEFL showed that students were overwhelmed by the difficulty and time length of the test. In particular, they expressed difficulty with dialogues in Part A, which contain speaker’s. | Multiple Intelligences revisited Rolf Palmberg About the author Rolf Palmberg is a senior lecturer at Ảbo Akademi University at Vaasa where he teaches foreign-language methodology in the university teacher-training programmes for class teachers foreign-language teachers and special-education teachers. E-mail . Website http users rpalmber . Postal address . Box 311 FI-65101 Vaasa Finland. About this eBook Title front page photo Scene from the village of Al Hamra Ras al Khaimah United Arab Emirates. Rolf Palmberg 2008 . Small photo in upper right corner Sign on a house in Kiev Ukraine. Rolf Palmberg 2008 . This eBook is a revised and updated version based on two previously published eBooks Basic Multiple Intelligences for EFL Teachers Palmsoft Publications 2010 and Activities and Exercises for Logical-Mathematical Learners of English Palmsoft Publications 2009 . English-language versions of portions of the eBook s have been published in various journals and newsletters as indicated in the Acknowledgement section at the end of each chapter. Rolf Palmberg 2011 . 2 CONTENTS 1. Learning about Multiple Intelligences 4 - Background 4 - Typical learner characteristics 5 - A selection of classroom exercises 6 - MI profiles 15 - Effects on learning 16 - Choosing appropriate classroom activities 17 - The MI Theory and EFL 17 - Outline of the present eBook 18 2. Starting with Multiple Intelligences 19 - Read a book on multiple intelligences 19 - Identify your MI profile 19 - Identify your students MI profiles 21 - Categorise classroom activities according to intelligence types 23 - Combine language skills activities and intelligence types 23 - Suggest language skills activities for different intelligence types 24 - Identify the MI profile of a foreign-language workbook 25 - Identify the MI profile of a foreign-language lesson 26 - Prepare an MI-based lesson outline 28 3. Catering for Multiple Intelligences 30 - One for all - all for one 30