Multiple Intelligences Speech Engagements for Oral Language Proficiency

Abstract

To respond to the needs of the teachers and especially also of the language students, this study was conceived to experiment the use of multiple intelligences-based instructions in speech class. The study was intended to discover the oral language proficiency of the students through multiple intelligences speech engagements. The experiment was done in the whole semester class in Speech. There were 40 students subjected to experimental Multiple Intelligences speech engagements and another 40 to the typical speech instruction as control group. Oral language proficiency level was pre-post tested. It is discovered that Multiple Intelligences and Form-Focused speech engagements both develop oral language proficiency.  Thus, there was a significant raise in the oral language proficiency of the students in the posttest. The raise of oral language proficiency among the Multiple Intelligences engaged and those under the Typical Speech engaged did show significant difference.