Multiple Intelligences

Both Playway to English and Join In are written by the highly successful author team of Günter Gerngross and Herbert Puchta, who together have many years' experience of teaching and writing for young learners. Their materials draw on important findings in the field of Neurolinguistic Programming and Multiple Intelligences.

In his theory of Multiple Intelligences, Gardner identified seven different types of 'intelligence':

• linguistic
• logical-mathematical
• musical
• spatial
• kinaesthetic
• interpersonal
• intrapersonal

Children learn best when every aspect of their intelligence is stimulated which is why Join In contains activities which involve music, language, movement, logic, interpersonal work and spatial relations.

(You can find out more by reading Herbert Puchta's article on Multiple Intelligences and Join In in the Articles and Interviews section.)