Determining the Actions to Solve the Problems
58 improve students’ vocabulary knowledge, the researcher used the logical-
mathematical, visual, and musical intelligences techniques. The visual intelligence technique and the musical intelligence techniques would trigger their vocabulary
knowledge about the picture or the songs. The logical mathematical intelligence techniques, which are the most students’ most highly-developed intelligence,
would help them to think critically about the picture and the songs. They also could get more vocabulary from it.
The logical-mathematical intelligence techniques were also used to improve other students’ reading comprehension skills. These techniques were
used to improve students’ lack of grammar mastery. The students were asked to think the grammar critically, for example: why past tense is used in the recount
text, why they don’t use present tense in spite of past tense, how past verb form is created. Other intelligences techniques that were Visual and Bodily-Kinesthetic
intelligences techniques were also used to improve their grammar mastery. In order to improve the students’ lack of other reading skills such as
understanding references, recognizing the writer’s tone, finding the main idea of the paragraph, distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant statements from the
text, determining the topic of a passage, the researcher would use other intelligences techniques. Visual, Bodily-Kinesthetic and Logical Mathematical
intelligences techniques would help students improving their understanding references. The activities offered by Visual and Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligences
techniques such as Board games could attract the students’ attention while they
59 learned to understand the use of references in the text. This technique was also
used to improve the students’ skills in finding the topic of a passage and distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant statements from the text.
Next, the researcher decided the techniques offered by Interpersonal, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Linguistics and Visual intelligence techniques would be the
best options to improve students’ skill in finding the main idea of a paragraph. Jigsaw activity is one of the teaching techniques that are based on the
Interpersonal, Bodily-Kinesthetic, and Linguistics intelligence techniques. The students could work in group to share their ideas and opinion while they could
also learn from other students. Their Verbal-Linguistics intelligence could also be used to arrange the jumbled paragraph in the Jigsaw activity by understanding the
main idea of each paragraph. The researcher would use ideas-sketching activity of Visual intelligence techniques to help students’ improving this skill. It would train
the students to find the main idea of paragraph and turned it into other form that is picture.