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The Relationship Between Multiple Intelligences And Reading Proficiency Of Iranian Efl Students, Karim Hajhashemi, Kourosh Akef, Neil Anderson
The Relationship Between Multiple Intelligences And Reading Proficiency Of Iranian Efl Students, Karim Hajhashemi, Kourosh Akef, Neil Anderson
Karim Hajhashemi
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between multiple intelligences (MI) and reading proficiency of Iranian EFL pre-university students and to look into the role that gender plays. To find out the relationships among the naturally occurring variables, the researcher employed a descriptive and ex post facto design. The participants were 128 randomly selected pre-university students. The researcher utilized three instruments, namely: 1) a demographic questionnaire; 2) the Persian version of Mckenzie’s MI Inventory; and 3) a standardized reading proficiency test retrieved from paper-based TOEFL® tests. Analyzing the data using t-test, it was found that there was …
The Relationship Between Iranian Efl High School Students’ Multiple Intelligence Scores And Their Use Of Learning Strategies, Karim Hajhashemi, Fatemeh Parasteh Ghombavani, Seyed Yasin Yazdi Amirkhiz
The Relationship Between Iranian Efl High School Students’ Multiple Intelligence Scores And Their Use Of Learning Strategies, Karim Hajhashemi, Fatemeh Parasteh Ghombavani, Seyed Yasin Yazdi Amirkhiz
Karim Hajhashemi
According to the theory of multiple intelligences (MI) propounded by Gardner (1983, 1999a, 1999b), each individual has a multitude of intelligences that are quite independent of each other and each individual has a unique cognitive profile. Having access to the MI profiles and learning strategies of learners could help the teachers in planning activities to connect both strategies and students’ talents and provide students with the best possible instruction. Thus, this study attempts to find out the relationship between the MI profiles and language learning strategies used by Iranian EFL high school students. Two hundred and twenty-nine students (121 males, …