• E. Suresh Kumar

  Author

• N. Prathyusha

  Author

The Society, in general, even today believe that only students with strong linguistic,
logical and mathematical intelligence can survive in this world, whereas students who possess
other intelligences are not even considered as human beings. The present education system,
which considers or measures the capacity of the students only in terms of marks and grades,
might be one of the reasons for this kind of beliefs in the society. Students who have other
intelligences such as musical or spatial are neglected and downgraded. This paper focuses on
enhancing the communication skills of learners of English using Gardner’s Musical Intelligence
(MI). For this purpose Gardner’s MI questionnaire was adopted and administered to 150
randomly chosen school students and the data was assessed and analysed on the Likert Scale. An
intervention programme was organized based on the pre-test scores and the improvement in
performance was measured through the post-test scores.

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