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- Title
Teaching Spoken English Communication Skills to the Students of MANUU Polytechnic Using Multiple Intelligence Approach: An Experimental Study.
- Authors
Mandly, Nagaraju
- Abstract
The present study focuses on finding out the effectiveness of teaching Spoken English Communication Skills to the first year students of diploma in civil engineering of MANUU Polytechnic, Bangalore using video-based tasks with multiple intelligence approach. It is an experimental study. In the process of research, firstly students' multiple intelligences are tested using modified standard Multiple Intelligences Test of Howard Gardner (1993) which aims to help a teacher to meet the English language needs of all the students with different socio, economic, cultural and language backgrounds, and their tested multiple intelligences are analysed to help the researcher of this study to prepare tasks for teaching the students effectively. Secondly, the study focused on knowing the students' language level. A pre-test is conducted for them on spoken English communication skills by playing the selected videos in mute which showed the greatest civil engineering constructions of the world, and the spoken test is video recorded. Through this their language difficulty level is understood by the researcher. Thirdly, spoken English communication skills are taught to the students for a period of about forty days using tasks prepared by freely available videos from YouTube, and these videos are selected as used in the pre-test with British English. The videos are used to create interest and motivation among the students to learn the language effectively. Fourthly, to test the improvement of the students' spoken English communication skills, post-test is conducted by playing the selected videos in mute, and the results of pre & post are analysed by the modified standard spoken English tes. Fifthly, results of pre- and post-tests are compared using the standard 'T-test' to check the students' language skills improvement. Finally, findings and suggestions are offered.
- Subjects
INSTRUCTIONAL systems; ACCOUNTING education; MULTIPLE intelligences; EMOTIONAL intelligence; LEARNING modalities
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 8, p56
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article