خلاصة:
This study explored the relationship between the use of oral communication strategies (OCSs) and multiple intelligence(s) (MI) of Iranian EFL learners. In addition, it investigated what type of intelligence(s) could act as the best predictor of OCSs. To these ends, Nakatani's (2006) Oral Communication Strategy Inventory and Armstrong's (1994) MI Inventory were used to collect data from 120 homogenous intermediate EFL participants selected from a larger sample at Shahrekord and Arak universities. The data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially using correlation and multiple regression procedures. Results showed that among strategies for coping with speaking problems, the participants perceived themselves higher at 'message-abandonment','nonverbal', and 'message reduction and alteration' strategies, and among strategies for coping with listening problems, they perceived themselves higher at 'word-oriented' and 'nonverbal' strategies. Also, logical intelligence was the leading intelligence type and musical intelligence was the least common type of intelligence. Moreover, there was a positive relationship between spatial intelligence and OCSs, with the spatial intelligence as the best predictor of the use of OCSs
ملخص الجهاز:
A. Student, Shahrekord University, Iran Received on February 8, 2012 Accepted on April 30, 2013 Abstract This study explored the relationship between the use of oral communication strategies (OCSs) and multiple intelligence(s) (MI) of Iranian EFL learners.
In addition, it investigated what type of intelligence(s) could act as the best predictor of OCSs. To these ends, Nakatani's (2006) Oral Communication Strategy Inventory and Armstrong's (1994) MI Inventory were used to collect data from 120 homogenous intermediate EFL participants selected from a larger sample at Shahrekord and Arak universities.
For instance, Chen (2009), who examines the OSCs used by college English majors in Taiwan, reported no direct relationship between the speaking proficiency and OSCs. In contrast, speaking of the OCS use of students learning English in Taiwan, Li (2010) found that the highly proficient students utilized OCSs more often and relied more on social, negotiation for meaning, and accuracy-oriented strategies than those with mid or low English proficiency.
In a similar study with Iranian EFL high school students, Hajhashemi, Parastesh, and Yazdi Amirkhiz (2011), found a low relationship between MI and language learning strategy use, in general.
g. Saricaoğlu & Arikan, 2009) too, implies that this intelligence should be cherished more in EFL learning to foster OCSs such as 'fluency-maintaining' strategies because, as Richards and Rodgers (2001) argue, there are aspects of language that are closely linked to a theory of music.
The relationship between Iranian EFL high school students’ multiple intelligences scores and their use of learning strategies.