فاعلية برنامج تعليمي قائم على المنحنى التواصلي في تحسين الذكاء اللغوي لدى طالبات المرحلة الأساسية العليا في الأردن

Abstract EN

This research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of an Instructional program based on the communicative approach in improving upper stage female students’ linguistic intelligence.

To achieve the aim of the research, the researchers used the quasi-experimental design.

The subjects of the research were (69) tenth grade students in Salbood Mixed Elementary School in Amman Third Directorate in the first semester of the scholastic year 2011/2012.

The experimental group consisted of (34) students and the control group consisted of (35) students.

The instruments of the research were; an Instructional program based on the communicative approach prepared by the researchers, and Armstrong’s (2000) measure for language intelligence was adopted.

The validity of the instruments was approved by a jury, the Cronbach Alpha was used for the reliability of Armstrong’s (2000) measure and its reliability was (0.75).

Using (ANCOVA), the results revealed that there was no significant difference at significance level (a=0.05) between the experimental group and the control group in improving linguistic intelligence due to the Instructional program based on the communicative approach.