The Relationship Between Linguistic Intelligence and Student s' Achievement in English for Fourth Preparatory Students

Abstract

Mental and linguistic activity, asshown by Cardner, a scientist, is one of the multiple types of intelligence and consists of seven types of intelligence. It is measured by the cognitive performance of the individual who is responsible for acquiring and developing language.Many advanced linguistic studies agreed that it includes factors responsible for sounds, semantics and organization. Therefore, the importance of the current research was determined by measuring the linguistic intelligence while studying English and its relationship to achievement (getting high marks).

To achieve the objectives of this research a test of linguistic intelligence was conducted after determining its areas and the number of its items. In its initial form, the test includes 67 items for the total of three areas as identified by experts and multiple-choice formula.Then the psychometric characteristics of the test are verified, and paragraphs are determined through honesty, consistency, distinction, and difficulty.

The test, in its final version, was applied to the students of the third-grade intermediate in First Karkh Directrate of Education. Those students were chosen deliberately for their cooperation to accomplish the current research.

The researcher adopted the final degree of achievement for the academic year 2018-2019 for English to know its relationship with linguistic intelligence. The researcher has concluded a high correlation relationship between both linguistic intelligence and the degree of achievement (getting high marks). This explains the distinction of some of them in English without the other subjects and this is consistent with Gardner’s theory of seven types of intelligence adopted by the researcher.