An Investigation between Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

Sabriye Şener,Ayten Çokçalışkan

doi:10.11114/jets.v6i2.2643

Sabriye Şener, Ayten Çokçalışkan

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https://doi.org/10.11114/jets.v6i2.2643

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Abstract

Exploring learning style and multiple intelligence type of learners can enable the students to identify their strengths and weaknesses and learn from them. It is also very important for teachers to understand their learners’ learning styles and multiple intelligences since they can carefully identify their goals and design activities that can teach to the different intelligences, and design student-centered activities. This study aims to reveal secondary school students’ multiple intelligences and learning styles. It also aims to describe gender differences and the relationship between learning styles and multiple intelligences of the students. The research study employed a quantitative research design and the data were collected from the students of a state school in the winter term of 2015-2016 Education Year. The data were gathered by means of the two instruments: The Perceptual Learning-Style Preference Questionnaire (PLSPQ), and the Multiple Intelligence Inventory. It was observed that the students had almost all these types of learning styles but mostly they were found to be tactile and auditory learners. The three intelligence groups: Naturalistic, Visual and Kinesthetic intelligences types received the highest score. The analyses also indicated that there was a significant difference between males and females. It was seen that most of the intelligence types and learning styles had a moderate positive correlation.

Highlights

The Theory of Multiple Intelligences suggested by Gardner in the early 1980s as an alternative way to traditional classroom designs that as a need for the variety of ways people learn and understand. Gardner (1983) suggested that learners do not have a single intelligence, but a range of intelligences
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between learners’ learning styles and multiple intelligence types and gender in order to increase learners’ language learning in the foreign language context
It was observed that the students had almost all these types of learning styles

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The Theory of Multiple Intelligences suggested by Gardner in the early 1980s as an alternative way to traditional classroom designs that as a need for the variety of ways people learn and understand. Gardner (1983) suggested that learners do not have a single intelligence, but a range of intelligences. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences suggested by Gardner in the early 1980s as an alternative way to traditional classroom designs that as a need for the variety of ways people learn and understand. Gardner (1983) suggested that learners do not have a single intelligence, but a range of intelligences His assumption is that all people have these intelligences but in each person one of them is more pronounced. This new view on intelligence differs from the traditional view that usually recognizes only two intelligences. With the help of this theory, people can comprehend better how individual differences can be understood, approached and improved in a teaching and learning environment

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