The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of improving English ability and the interest of learning English and other subjects through the development of each intelligence group activity program based on theory of multiple intelligences. ...
The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of improving English ability and the interest of learning English and other subjects through the development of each intelligence group activity program based on theory of multiple intelligences. The period of this study is from August, 2005 to September, 2006. The experimental group is made up of 15 second-year students in special supplement class in middle school located in Masan City.
To carry out the purpose of this study, multiple dimensions of student intelligence were measured and then teaching-learning models of seventy-minute unit composed of the group activities of each strongest intelligence dimension and applied them to the experimental class. After the experiment, the effectiveness and the learning outcome of the experimental method were analyzed by the students' results of English exams and questionnaires.
The group activities based on the multiple intelligences theory were found to be more effective in improving the students' English abilities of special supplement class than the traditional teacher-centered learning class. The results also indicated that students who performed group activities based on the multiple intelligences theory could get more interest in both learning English and other subjects than the traditional teacher-centered learning class.
This study proves that the group activities based on the multiple intelligences theory become the motives to be able to give the slow-learners the interest and achievement in learning English by getting rid of responsibilities and stimulating desires of challenge through the mixing the slow-learners' strongest intelligence dimension with various activity-centered tasks. Accordingly, it is necessary to apply these group activities based on the multiple intelligences theory to normal classes as well as special supplement classes through the development of teaching methods and assessment standards based on this theory in the various sides.