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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The title of the study is Speaking Materials based on Multiple Intelligences Theory for the Tenth Grade Students of Senior High School. The
study is aimed to develop students’ speaking skill by employing the Multiple Intelligences Theory, which is proposed by Howard Gardner. The activities that
employ the Multiple Intelligences Theory are hoped can develop speaking ability of the tenth grade students of Senior High School. The intelligences are: verbal-
linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. The materials are designed based on
Curriculum 2006 or which is known as Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan KTSP.
A. Background
The study was conducted because of three reasons. First, teaching in schools only concerns on verbal-linguistic intelligence and logical-mathematical
intelligence development. Second, the needs of senior high school students to be able to speak English well. Third, teaching English in class only use lecturing as a
method; this situation advantages student with verbal-linguistic intelligence, but not for students that have other intelligence, e.g. music intelligence. The study
gives as an alternative for teachers to teach and develop the students’ speaking ability.
B. Purpose
The designed materials are aimed to give the students many opportunities to practice using different kinds of their intelligences through speaking in learning
English. Moreover, by practicing using many kinds of activities, the students can develop their own learning style independently. For the teachers, these materials
can be the bases for them to develop better materials using multiple intelligences theory.
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C. Content
The designed materials include nine units. Each unit consists of five main parts, which the each part contains with activities that train the specific
intelligences; and those intelligences are symbolized with icons. •
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• verbal-linguistic
logical-mathematical visual-spatial
musical bodily-kinesthetic
interpersonal intrapersonal
naturalist The activities give the students opportunity to practice to use their
intelligences. The materials are designed based on Curriculum 2006 KTSP.
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GAMBARAN UMUM
Penelitian ini berjudul Speaking Materials based on Multiple Intelligences Theory for the Tenth Grade Students of Senior High School. Pada dasarnya, tujuan
penulisan tugas akhir ini adalah mengembangakan teori kecerdasan ganda yang diprakarsai oleh Howard Gardner untuk melatih kemampuan berbicara untuk
murid kelas sepuluh SMA. Dengan menggunakan teori kecerdasan ganda ini, dikembangkanlah aktivitas-aktivitas yang diharapkan dapat menstimulasi delapan
area kecardasan; diantaranya verbal-linguistik, matematis-logis, ruang-visual, kinestetik-badani, musik, interpersonal, intrapersonal, dan lingkungan hidup.
Materi pembelajaran ini dikembangkan berdasarkan kurikulum 2006 atau yang lebih dikenal dengan nama Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan KTSP.
A. Latar Belakang
