MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
Teachers have always known that their students have different strengths. In the language teaching field, some of the differences among students have been attributed to students’ having different learning or cognitive styles. For instance, some students are better visual learners than aural learner. They learn better when they are able to read new material rather than simply listen to it. Of course, many learners can learn equally well either way; however, it has been estimated that for up to 25 percent of the population, the mode of instruction dose make a different in their success as learners (Levin et al. 1974 cited in Larsen-Freeman and Long 1991). Hatch (1974) further distinguishes between learners who are data-gatherers and those who are rule-formers. Data-gatherers are fluent but inaccurate; rule-formers are more accurate, but often speak haltingly.