Multiple Intelligences and English Language Learning in University Students

Abstract

This research had as aim to establish the degree of relationship between the multiple intelligences and the English language learning in students of the first year of the National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle. It is a work confined to a quantitative approach, type substantive, correlational design and descriptive method. The population and the sample was consisted of 114 students. To gather the information, it was applied a questionnaire adapted from the one developed by Howard Gardner and a test, which includes the four basic skills for the English language learning: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. With the purpose of establishing the degree of relationship between each of the variables of this study, it was applied the Coefficient of Correlation Chi-square and Rho Spearman. After their analysis, according to the Spearman correlation of 0,473, the main conclusion was reached that multiple intelligences and English Language Learning are directly related to a moderate positive correlation.

Keywords: learning; capacities; abilities; intelligence; foreign language.