期刊名称:International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN:2278-4012
出版年度:2012
卷号:1
期号:2
出版社:Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要:The paper focuses on the Multiple Intelligences that are based on the premise that there arediverse intelligences that an individual possesses rather than only intelligence academicintelligence. The objectives of the study were to analyze the primary level English textbook withreference to Gardner’s multiple intelligences; to explore the ways for integrating all multipleintelligences into the primary school English textbook; to encourage the teachers to promotemultiple intelligences in the teaching of English curriculum. Findings depict that maximumlinguistic intelligence in focused. Although it is a language textbook, however, it does not meanthat we should focus only language skills development in teaching of language textbook. We canmaximum promote various aspects of an individual’s personality in teaching like Interpersonal,Intrapersonal, Musical, Bodily-kinesthetic, Visual-spatial, Naturalistic and Existential. As weobserve very little score is on Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, especially on Musical, Bodilykinesthetic,Visual-spatial, Naturalistic and Existential. On the basis of findings of present studyit is suggested that in textbook of English activities based on Intrapersonal, Musical, Bodilykinesthetic,Visual-spatial, Naturalistic and Existential intelligences may be incorporated in orderto develop various aspects an individual’s personality and motivate them in learning of BasicEnglish language skills.