ABSTRACT

Of course, it is foolish, and quite impractical, to appeal to every learning style in every lesson, but a little effort to offer more variety will pay great divi­ dends, both in student performance and in their satisfaction with you and the language that you teach. An awareness of your students' varied learning styles will help you show them how to become better learners. For example, you could suggest that an especially musically intelligent student learn verb end­ ings by making up a song about them, or that a kinesthetic studertt should asso­ ciate each subject or verb ending with a different gesture or movement. Teach­ ing students how to use their more developed intelligences to learn material outside the classroom will also free you from having to appeal to every intelli­ gence every time, instead you will be able to work to strengthen their intellec­ tual weaknesses.