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Existential multiple intelligence
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INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES
Existential multiple intelligence deals with proclivity to pose
and to ponder problems about the life, death and ultimate realties. Some supporters of multiple intelligence theory proposed spiritual or religious intelligence as a possible additional type of intelligence. And Gardner did not support this idea of committing it to a spiritual intelligence and suggested an “existential” intelligence as a useful construct. Later the hypothesis of an existential intelligence has been further investigated by researchers. Analysis of the psychological literature shows that there are proponents and critics of the theory of multiple intelligences. The defenders of the theory argue that the traditional definition of intelligence is too narrow and the broader definition more accurately reflects the differing ways in which people think and learn. 4. The innovative potential of emotional intelligence in FLT The critics of the theory stress out the fact that Gardner has not provided a test of his multiple intelligences and he originally defined it as the ability to solve problems that have value in at least one culture or as something that a learner is interested in. Thus studying of intelligence becomes difficult, because it differs in a broader concept of ability. Gardner defines intelligence as bio-psychological potential to process information. And this information is activated in cultural setting to solve problems. Bio-psychological potential has more ways to do this than logical in linguistic intelligence. According to Gardner the purpose of education is to develop intelligences and to help people reach professional (vocational) goals. And these people feel to be more involved into activities. 53 In predicting school and job performances and other life outcomes intelligence quotient is used. And many authors stress out the importance of it. Gardner contends that intelligence quotient test focus mostly on logical linguistic intelligence. These tests will give the chances of attending a prestigious colleges or universities. But while many students feel well in this the others do not. And criticizing intelligence quotient tests, holding states out that these tests can only provide a freeze frame view of crystallized knowledge. They cannot assess or predict a person’s ability to learn, to assimilate new information and to solve problems. Some educators argue that Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences will serve better for education because the teachers are possessed of using different methodologies, exercises and activities to reach all students not only those who excel at linguistic and logical intelligence. It makes the teachers find out new, more effective ways that will help individual students in acquiring knowledge. This is useful in learner-oriented teaching where every characteristic features (intelligence or abilities) are taken into consideration in organizing teaching. Gardner studied different psychological and social variables of motivation and its role in a second language learning. If a teacher is aware of these abilities of multiple intelligences he/she will have favorable opportunities of organizing teaching effectively and possibilities of improving the efficiency of teaching. Learners in spite of their age are individuals who have these or those abilities which can be taken into consideration during the teaching process. While learning a second language one must be motivated to learn the language for one of two reasons. They are instrumental or integrative purposes. Instrumental purpose means to get a job or to meet a school graduation requirement. And integrative purpose is to understand better how native speakers of the language think and behave. So, motivation is important component in FLT. Thus, knowing the learners’ reasons and goals for FLT enables teachers to find out more effective ways and methods of teaching and also to plan an appropriate curriculum. 54 At the lesson a teacher should encourage students to concentrate on the theme (language and speech material) and to take an active part in the discussion. For this a teacher needs to be creative and innovative. Awareness of the teacher with the integrative purposes of the learners will help him to use in teaching the methods which correspond to the learners’ integrative purposes. The innovative teacher can extract information from tests, audio and visual sources of information for teaching purposes. Innovative ways of teaching are usually based on motivation, on the ability of a teac her how he is able to create favorable atmosphere for learning. Here a teacher’s ability to generate interest among the learners is of great value. It is obvious that interest is a sense of curiosity about something. Every learner wants to learn something which associates with what he likes. If a teacher is aware of his students’ interests, characters and abilities then we can say that the power of stimulating of learners is in the hands of the teacher. The experienced teachers know that many students are afraid of communicating in English because of fear of being laughed at by their group-mates. A FL taught for using it in communication. Thus awareness of teachers with the multiple intelligences will help them to find out the more effective methods of overcoming such psychological hindrances as the fear of making mistakes and the fear of being laughed at by others. When students feel even a little success in using the language in communication they are inspired, encouraged for further learning a foreign language. For this a teacher’s creativity, learners’ understanding and encouragement are needed. There are many factors around us to motivate learners. And the teacher should be able to use them for keeping the learners active at the lesson. One of the questions that the FL teachers face is how to challenge the learners to speak in a target language and practice it and how to motivate the learners who are not able to understand the importance of practicing a target language in order to develop language subskills and skills. Some learners don’t see the need to master the language. That’s why one shouldn’t forget that the given opportunity, time and support are main factors of forming creativity. 55 And it should also be stressed that both learners and teachers have creative potential. The question here is how to explore and use their creative skills in learning a foreign language and in the process of communication. Creative and imaginative activities help to make the learning process easy for the learners. Download 2.75 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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