Relationship between Multiple Intelligences and Writing Strategies

Abstract

—This study was conducted to find the relationship between multiple intelligences and writing strategies among Iranian EFL learners. The participants in this study were 120 adult males and females studying at high and advanced levels of Iran Language Institute. They filled two questionnaires during the first sessions of spring semester of 2012. The first questionnaire was a multiple intelligences inventory surveying nine types of intelligences based on Gardner's theory and the second one was a writing skills and strategies questionnaire checking the students' use of general, before, during and after writing strategies. According to the results of a corelational analysis, " logical, existential, kinesthetic, verbal and visual intelligences " correlated with " general writing strategies " . Moreover, " naturalistic, logical, kinesthetic and visual intelligences " showed relationship with " before writing strategies " . The researcher found that some types of intelligences among females had relationship with some writing strategies while in the male group no relationships were found. Besides, the results of advanced levels showed more significant correlations than those of high levels. Regression analysis, on the other hand, proved that none of the intelligences could predict writing strategies separately.