Utilizing a Multiple Intelligences based-Strategy to Enhance EFL Speaking Skills and Motivation for El -Azhar Secondary Stage Students

Abstract

The current study was conducted to develop the EFL speaking skills and motivation for Al-Azhar secondary stage students through adopting a Multiple intelligences based-strategy. Accomplishing this purpose, the present study used the pre-post, experimental-control group design. The study groups' pre-posttest design was adopted. Conducting the current treatment, thirty EFL 1 st year secondary stage students from Ekwa religious institute for girls, Dyarb Negem administration, Sharkia governorate, Egypt, were randomly allocated in two groups (fifteen students for quasi-experimental group)and fifteen for control group, the researcher designed an EFL speaking test to measure these skills before and after the treatment, a scale was also designed for measuring the effect of the strategy on the students' motivation before and after the treatment. The current study was conducted over a period of ten weeks, along ten sessions, throughout the first term of the academic year 2019-2020. The results of the study indicated that utilizing a Multiple intelligences based-strategy was effective in developing the EFL speaking skills and motivation of Al-Azhar secondary stage students.