David De la Fuente Angel Castillo Alejandro Garza

Multiple Intelligences

 Multiple Intelligences is a learnerphilosophy that characterizes human intelligence as having multiple dimensions.

Traditional IQ tests are founded

on the idea that intelligence is single, unchanged, inborn capacity.

Howard Gardner.

Noted that traditional IQ tests measured only logic and language, yet the brain has other important types of intelligence. He believes they can be enhanced through training and practice.

Learners are viewed as possessing individual learning styles, preferences or intelligences. The objective of MI is to accommodate this differences in teaching.

Gardner proposed view of natural human talents. The MI have been proposed in general education and have subsequently been applied to language education. Gardner claims that his view of intelligence(s) is culture-free and avoids traditional models of intelligence.

Multiple Intelligences
The idea of Multiple Intelligences goes beyond traditional books, pens, and pencils. Providing activities that build on those inherent gifts.

Approach
Some schools in the USA have their educational programs around the MI model. Unfortunately the MI theory lacks some basic elements that might link it more to the language education. MI theory is not related to any language learning theory.

Language
Language can be integrated in other ways:
Music, bodily activity, interpersonal relationships, and so on. Language is not seen as limited to a linguistics perspectives bur encompasses all aspects of communication: Language learning is closely linked to Linguistic Intelligence. There are aspects of language as rhythm, tone, volume, and pitch linked to a theory of music.

g
Intelligence comprises a single factor called the g factor. The single factor model correlates higher intelligence (+g) with greater speed and efficiency of neural processing.

The higher the g factor in the individual = the greater the speed and efficiency of the individuals brain performing cognitive operations

g
verbal ability, math reasoning, spatial visualization, and memory. etc

Skills that are more dependent on knowledge or experience. e.g. principles and practices of a particular job or profession.