B Apply what you have understood about Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative learning, and Multiple intelligences.
1 Interview a group of students about the learning strategies they use to facilitate their language acquisition. Are there any patterns? Are there strategies that might help your students if they knew how to use them? If so, plan a lesson to teach one. See what result.
2 Goodman (1998) has written that 'one essential tenet of cooperative learning is the notion that any exercise, course material, or objective ... may be reformulated into a cooperative experience' (p. 6). With this in mind, think back to a recent exercise you asked your language students to do. How could you have reformulated it in such a way as to be con-sistent with cooperative learning principles?
3 Make a list of your most commonly used language teaching activities. Try to determine which intelligences they work on. If there are intelligences that are not included in your list, see if you can change the way you do the activities to include it/them. Alternatively, consider adding activities which work on the missing intelligence(s) to your repertoire.