Multiple intelligence assessment in teaching English for young learners

Authors

Ernawati Ernawati, Department of Educational Research and Evaluation Graduate School of Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka Indonesia
Hana Tsurayya, Early Childhood Education Center of Taman Anak Soleh As Salaam Indonesia
Abdul Rahman A. Ghani, Department of Educational Research and Evaluation Graduate School of Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka Indonesia

Keywords

multiple intelligence, assessment, teaching English, young learners

Document Type

Article

Abstract

There are many schools in Indonesia that provide English as one of their subjects. English has been taught from elementary schools, even in Kindergarten. Ironically, teaching English in most rural schools still uses a conventional method such as memorizing and translating. Many teachers cannot afford to provide well-designed, meaningful exercises for students to use on a one-to-one learning basis. As a result, students seem not having interest in learning English. Based on this reason, this study was conducted to identify students' intelligence through Multiple Intelligence Assessment to get effective approach in teaching English for young learners. The participants are an English teacher and students at an early childhood education center. This research focuses on presenting a deep description of the Multiple-Intelligence assessment to identify students' intelligence in order to get an effective way of teaching English for young learners. In collecting the data, three instruments were used: observation, interview, and document analysis. The findings of this study show that students have different interests and nature; some students love singing, some others enjoy drawing, and others like role-playing. Multiple-Intelligence Assessment helps the teachers to identify students' interests and bring them building some learning activities to attract them in learning English.

Page Range

21-29

Issue

1

Volume

5

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.21831/reid.v5i1.23376

Source

https://journal.uny.ac.id/index.php/reid/article/view/23376

Recommended Citation

Ernawati, E., Tsurayya, H., & Ghani, A. R. (2019). Multiple intelligence assessment in teaching English for young learners. REID (Research and Evaluation in Education), 5(1), 21-29. https://doi.org/10.21831/reid.v5i1.23376

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