Multiple Intelligences can provide the basis for an activity-centred approach that fosters children’s thinking skills. In this session, different types of activities for the teaching of Phonics will be presented and their implications for the development of creative thinking and smart minds will be discussed.
Sagrario Salaberri is Lecturer in TEFL at the University of Almería (Spain). Throughout her career, she has been active in fostering teacher training. She has been a speaker at many conferences, courses and seminars on the teaching of English as a second or foreign language. She has written many articles, chapters and books in that field and has been involved in the development of curriculum design, curricular material for EFL and teacher support materials. She is co-author of handbooks for teachers and course books such as “Storytelling”, "English Club", "Cosmos", "Universe", and is author of “Classroom Language” and levels 5 and 6 of “Sunshine”. Sagrario is one of the authors of the new Pearson Primary course Islands.
