The effect of a multiple intelligences theory-based program on tenth-grade students' reading comprehension skills in Jordan

الملخص EN

Through purposeful sampling, were 110 male and female tenth-grade students from two different schools in Ramtha directorate of education.

the first control group consisted of 28 female students, while the first experimental group encompassed 27 female students from the same school.

the second control group consisted of 24 male students, whereas the second experimental group comprised 31 male students from the same school in the academic year 20172018/.

the two control groups were taught the reading comprehension texts conventionally.

the two experimental groups received treatment through a multiple intelligences theory-based program for ten weeks.

for the purpose of data collection, the researcher used a validated reading comprehension pre-posttest and an observation checklist.

the results, which were analyzed by SPSS, indicated that the multiple intelligences theory-based program had a positive effect on the students' reading comprehension skills.

the results also indicated that the program positively affected all the reading comprehension sub-skills.

the researcher recommended that EFL curriculum designers and teachers should take multiple intelligences into consideration when designing and teaching reading comprehension texts.