Linguistic: How to involve the students to listen,
speak, read, and write
Interpersonal: How to involve the students to
socialize with their friends
Logical-mathematical: How to introduce
numbers, logic, classification or
critical thought Naturalistic: How to
involve the nature or ecosystem in the
lesson Intrapersonal: How to
awaken the students’ imagination, personal
feeling or experience Musical: How to
involve music, sound, rhyme or
melody in the lesson
Spatial: How to use pictures, colours, at
or other visual tools
Bodily-kinesthetic: How to involve the
students to move or use their body
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On the other hand, the students also need to see themselves engage in a process of personality development so they are able to be more successful students in
general.
d. How to Apply Multiple Intelligences in Classroom
To apply all the intelligences in classroom is not an easy matter. The teacher must handle the lesson and the students as well. However, Armstrong
2002 suggested teachers to use a diagram to direct the idea, strategies, and activities to be conducted in the class. The diagram can be seen as follows:
Figure 2.1: The Multiple Intelligences Diagram Armstrong, 2002
Teachers should create activities that bring along the eight intelligences since each student has different degrees of intelligences. It must be done not only
to facilitate language acquisition but also to help the student realizes his or her
own ability. Based on the diagram, there are some alternative teaching strategies that might help teachers to employ Multiple Intelligences theory in classroom.
They are: 1
Linguistic activities: lecture, discussion, journal writing, reading aloud, drilling, story telling, debates.
2 Logical-mathematical activities: problem solving, number games,
classifying and organizing, finding patterns. 3
Musical activities: using music, composing songs or rhymes, singing, playing music.
4 Bodily-kinesthetic activities: hand signals, pantomime, real life situations,
puzzles and board games, role-play. 5
Spatial activities: mind-mapping, color-coding system, drawing designs, video, DVD, charts, maps.
6 Interpersonal activities: interviews, dialogues, question-answer, project
works, pair work, group-problem solving. 7
Intrapersonal activities: reflective teaching, reflective listening, self- evaluation, listing favourite things.
8 Naturalistic activities: natural objects as manipulative and as background
for learning. As the growing of the list of intelligences, it is sometimes impossible to
present every intelligence in every lesson plan. “The most important thing for teachers is how to explore the other intelligences and enable each student to reach
their full potential, while not losing sight that their purpose is to teach language”
Larsen and Freeman, 2000: 172. It means that teachers should make various activities to maximize the use of students’ intelligences in the class.
2. The Fifth Grade Students
