1Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government Arts and Science College, Pudukottai- Tamilnadu, India Email id: bellarmen@gmail.com
Online published on 22 February, 2021.
Multiple Intelligences developed by Howard Gardner play a primary role in Education today. The concept of smart classrooms in schools and colleges has become the most common means of teaching and has produced excellence in methods of English Language Teaching. The teachers in colleges should be aware of the fact that students coming from schools have their individual intelligence profiles. But the problem is they differ in their profiles. Obviously the differences affect the students ' learning process in a large classroom and the question is how should teacher face such diversity in classroom situations? In light of this question, the paper attempts to discuss strategies to invest in the teaching-learning processes so that the teachers look beyond traditional methods of classroom teaching and continue the track of application of multiple intelligences. The paper focuses on teaching speaking and listening skills and attempts to involve suitable intelligence theories. The strategies that were examined in classrooms are encouraging. The feedback from the students proves that the strategies are a worthy target for achieving standards in improving their speaking and listening competencies
Verbal-linguistic, Bodily-kinesthetic, Intrapersonal, Bodily-kinesthetic, Visual-spatial