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Teaching Spoken English Communication Skills to the Students of MANUU Polytechnic Using Multiple Intelligence Approach:
An Experimental Study

Nagaraju Mandly

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.

Introduction

There is a need for English Communication Skills to Engineering students in academic and professional settings as mentioned by many of the researchers in the field. To mention a few, Mandly (2008), a researcher, did a survey as part of his M.Phil. dissertation on the need of Spoken English Communication Skills and found that engineering students must need these skills. And the National Knowledge Commission of India (2006) also stressed on the need for preparing suitable syllabus as per the industry needs. The reason is that India is a developing country and has hundreds of thousands of engineering students every year in the productive age group, and the country needs to utilise these students for the development of India. For this, these students need to be equipped with the English language skills along with the subject knowledge. Therefore, every teacher of English should join hands to use suitable materials and methods to teach the students to develop Spoken English Communication Skills. In the present study, Multiple Intelligences approach of Howard Gardner (1993) is used for the research as it aims to fulfil the language needs of all the students. The study prepares tasks using nine multiple intelligences, namely: Verbal/Linguistic, Logical/mathematical, Visual/Spatial, Bodily/Kinesthetic, Rhythmic/Musical, Inter & Intra personal and Natural Intelligences.

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Nagaraju Mandly
Assistant Professor of English
Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Polytechnic
8th Cross, 1st Stage, 3rd Block, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore – 560072
Karnataka
India
nagarajumandly@yahoo.co.in

Research Scholar at the Department of English
Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Telengana
India

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