This text will be used as a teacher resource book for teachers who will work in a multilingual/mulitcultural classroom.
Table of Contents:
Tables and Figures
Preface Joy Reid
Theory and Practice
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Multiple Intelligence Theory and Second Language Learning
Mary Ann Christison, SnowCollege
Chapter 2 Teachers as Perceptual Learning Styles Researchers
Joy Reid, Universityof Wyoming
Chapter 3 The Triune Brain and Learning:Practice Insight for the Classroom
Emma Violand-Sánchez, Arlington(Virginia) Public Schools
Chapter 4 Learning Style Diversity and the Reading Class: Curriculum Design and Assessment
Marian Tyacke, Universityof Toronto
Chapter 5 Computers and Collaboration: Adapting CALL Materials to Different Learning Styles
Ken Keobke, CityUniversityof Hong Kong
Chapter 6 Learning Styles and Strategies of a Partially Bilingual Student Diagnosed as Learning Disabled: A Case Study
Rebecca Oxford, Universityof Alabama
Christine Nam, Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity
Chapter 7 Filed Independence, Field Dependence, and Field Sensitivity in Another Light
Madeline E. Ehrmam, Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, Virginia
Practice and Theory
Chapter 8 “Keep the Fire in Me”: Teaching Advanced ESL Learners Through Their Learning Styles
Prem Ramburuth, Universityof New South Wales
Chapter 9 Bridging the Gap Between Teaching Styles and Learning Styles
Maria Hsueh-yu Cheng, ChineseMilitaryAcademy, R.O.C.
Kingsley Banya, FloridaInternationalUniversity
Chapter 10 Designing ESL Classroom Collaboration to Accommodate Diverse Work Styles
Kate Kinsella, San FranciscoStateUniversity
Kathy Sherak, San FranciscoStateUniversity
Chapter 11 Developing a Survey for Multiple Intelligences: A Collaborative ESL Class Project
Chris Sauer, Divine World College
Chapter 12 Teaching Modals to Multistyle Learners
Barbara Harthill, University of Denver
Connie Busch, University of Denver
Chapter 13 Transforming Text Through Graphic Responses
Roberta Vann, Iowa State University
Chapter 14 Adult Learning Styles and Individual Writing Processes in the ESL/EFL Composition Classroom
Kristina Torkelson Gray, Northern Virginia Community College
Chapter 15 Expanding the Learning Styles of Japanese Analytic Learners
Jerry Call, Divine State College
Chapter 16 Encouraging Learner Independence
David Nunan, The English Centre, The University of Hong Kong
Appendices
Appendix 1 Multiple Intelligence Inventory for Teachers
Mary Ann Christison
Appendix 2 Student-Generated Inventory for Secondary and Young Adult Learners
Mary Ann Christison
Appendix 3 Perceptual Learning Style Preference Survey
Joy Reid
Appendix 4 The Tyacke Profile
Marian Tyacke
Appendix 5 Motivation and Strategies Questionnaire
Madeline E. Ehrman
Appendix 6 Academic Work Style Survey
Kate Kinsella
Appendix 7 Instructor Self-Assesment Form: Group Work Design and Implementation
Kate Kinsella
Appendix 8 Style Analysis Survey (SAS): Assessing Your Own Learning and Working Styles
Rebecca L. Oxford
Contributors
References
