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Com 569: CLASSROOM COMMUNICATION AND DIVERSITY Chapter 2: Factors influencing learning and communication Learning occurs through continuous building, integration, organization and rebuilding of material. At the core of this perspective is the recognition that language, culture, home, and community play important roles in the knowledge structures students possess. Culture also influences the constructs that students have for managing social situations. Constructivist approaches recognize that students come to the instructional context with different levels of competencies, interests, and experiences. - Much of our educational system is based on a “one size fits all” metaphor. As students move through the system, little effort is spent on tailoring instructional cloth to better fit each student. Because learning entails the negotiation of instructional material, it is difficult to isolate the specific ways that teaching influences learning. Some theorists go as far as to contend that teaching plays a rather minor role in learning. - The findings of this early research indicated that family socioeconomic status, ethnicity and family background are more important predictors of achievement than teaching. Seven Intelligences 1. Linguistic intelligence entails the ability to use words effectively in both oral and written modes for a variety of purposes such as debate, poetry, prose, writing and storytelling. Individuals with highly developed linguistic intelligence enjoy verbal jousting, puns, and other forms