Linguistic intelligence refers to a person's ability to understand and use language effectively. It involves skills like reading, writing, speaking, and listening. People who have
linguistic intelligence are good with words, enjoy reading and writing, and can easily communicate their thoughts and ideas with others.
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Gardner, a professor in the Harvard University education department, uses T.S. Eliot as an example of someone with
high linguistic intelligence.
When you put yourself in these stories, you empathize with the characters, which not only
improves linguistic intelligence, but also helps us with emotional intelligence.
For example, the narrational entry point uses a story (and
taps linguistic intelligence), whereas the logical entry point encourages the use of deductive logic in first thinking about a topic.
Verbal -
linguistic intelligence refers to an individual's ability to analyze information and produce work that involves oral and written language, such as speeches, books, and emails.
Linguistic intelligence involves sensitivity to spoken and written language, the ability to learn languages, and the capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals.
All of the seven abilities can augment or impede learning in academic courses under certain circumstances, but two of them — what Gardner
calls linguistic intelligence and logical - mathematical intelligence — are indispensable.
It's interesting that Gardner
listed linguistic intelligence as the very first intelligence in his original book on the subject, «Frames of Mind: The Theory of MultipleIntelligences,» published in 1983.
In the same way, as a teacher, you can enhance your students»
linguistic intelligence by giving them opportunities to express themselves creatively both verbally and through the written word.
In his book, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, he says, «When
linguistic intelligence is yoked to considerable personal intelligence, one has the markings of an effective communicatorand, perhaps, a promising leader.»
Someone with high verbal /
linguistic intelligence will probably be confident with both spoken and written language.
It's been scientifically proven that reading not only enriches our vocabulary and
linguistic intelligence, it also helps our imagination.
Your Dominant Intelligence is
Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language.
The poet has been described as the epitome of verbal -
linguistic intelligence.
Verbal -
linguistic intelligence — along with logical - mathematical intelligence — is often associated with doing well in school.
A Way with Words: Verbal -
Linguistic Intelligence.
According to Howard Gardner musical intelligence runs in an almost structural parallel to
linguistic intelligence.
Poets really specialize in
linguistic intelligence, but any kind of writer, orator, speaker, lawyer, or a person for whom language is an important stock in trade highlights linguistic intelligences.»
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Linguistic intelligence is the capacity to use language, your native language, and perhaps other languages, to express what's on your mind and to understand other people.
In 1983, Howard Gardner explained that general intelligence is comprised of the Logical - mathematical and
Linguistic intelligences.
Writers, poets, lawyers, and speakers are among those that Gardner sees as having high
linguistic intelligence.
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Linguistic Intelligence.»
Linguistic intelligence, one of Howard Gardner's Nine multiple intelligences, involves the ability to understand and use spoken and written language.
By age 9, Sartre was writing and expressing himself — developing
his linguistic intelligence.
But Gardner argues that
linguistic intelligence is much more than what can be measured on a test.
The music, images, and words that introduced the hurricane unit described above engage students» musical, visual - spatial, and verbal -
linguistic intelligences, which students also use to develop their PSAs.
Students then use visual - spatial intelligence when creating a story board and selecting images for the the multimedia piece; verbal -
linguistic intelligence when writing scripts and recording the narration for the PSA; spatial intelligence when evaluating and selecting images; and interpersonal and verbal - linguistic intelligences when working as a team and planning a narrative that would truly convince others of the importance of evacuation.