Jordanian EFL Students’ Attitudes toward Using an Instructional Program Based on Multiple Intelligences in Teaching Speaking Skills

Abstract

This study investigated the attitudes of Jordanian EFL students toward using Multiple Intelligences in teaching speaking skills. The participants were one section of the seventh-grade students in Success Story School in Irbid, who were the experimental group. The experimental group was taught the speaking skills through an instructional program based on Multiple Intelligence (verbal-linguistic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence). An attitudinal questionnaire of 11 items was developed by the researcher to the participants of the experimental group to find out their attitudes toward the significance of the Multiple Intelligences instructional program on EFL students’ speaking skills. The results showed that the students’ attitudes were positive as the program was reported to have a noticeable effect on improving their speaking skills. This study recommended that Multiple Intelligences should be integrated into the EFL teaching to improve students’ speaking skills.