to help teachers and teacher candidates to vary the activities conducted in the classroom and to appreciate the students as individuals.
3. The fifth grade students
The implementation of integrated materials based on Multiple Intelligences theory in the teaching-learning activity is proposed to help the
students to develop and activate their skills and interests through the areas of intelligences especially in learning English as a foreign language. Moreover, the
students will enjoy the lessons since the various activities are made based on the seven areas of intelligences in which they are appreciated as individuals who are
uniquely different from others.
F. Definition of Terms
In this section will be defined some important terms used in this study so that the readers will easily understand those terms.
1. Multiple Intelligences
Multiple Intelligences is a theory which was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that
the traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited. Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes nine different intelligences to account for a broader
range of human potential in children and adults. These intelligences are musical intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence,
linguistic intelligence, spatial intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, naturalist intelligence, and existential intelligences.
2. Integrated Material
Integrated material is material that focuses on the mastery of the integrated communicative skills rather than a mere mastery of the rules in the target
language Richard Rogers, 1988: 64. The term integrated material refers to a set of instructional material, which covers all four-language skills listening,
reading, speaking, and writing and the language elements grammar and vocabulary.
3. Fifth Grade Students
Fifth grade students are those who are in the fifth year of elementary school. In this study, they are the fifth grade students of Kanisius Kintelan
Yogyakarta in the second semester during 2008 2009 academic year.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter presents two major discussions. They are theoretical description and theoretical framework. In the theoretical description, some related
theories concerned with the study such as Multiple Intelligences theory, the fifth grade students’ characteristics, and the guidelines of teaching English as a foreign
language to children will be developed. The theoretical framework presents the summary of the previous section and illustrates the steps to be taken in the study.
A. Theoretical Description
There are three topics presented in this section. Those are Multiple Intelligences theory, the fifth grade student’s characteristics, and guidelines for
teaching English as a foreign language to children.
1. Multiple Intelligences Theory a. The Nature of Multiple Intelligences
Indonesian people have been conditioned to believe that someone has to reach a high score in academic field in order to be a successful person in society.
They often think that someone who has high IQ Intelligence Quotient will get a successful life in the future. In fact, there are many people who have high IQ are
successful in their study but not success in their career “Meredupnya Pamor IQ”, Leksono, Kompas, 2007.
