The ways of increasing students' participation level in business english classes: Integrating multiple intelligence theory into teaching and using literature

When carefully observed, there is a common transition from teacher centered education to student centered education in today?s modern education system. Teaching methods which support that concept of intelligence can be assessed by limited, inefficiently standardized tests and conventional teaching methods which give over emphasis on the linguistic skills and the usage of course books in foreign language teaching are replaced by more modern and learner centered approaches. Nowadays, many educators who study on the education field adopt multiple intelligence theory, suggesting every learner posses all different levels of intelligences which function uniquely and they also support the integration of multiple intelligence theory into teaching by stating the various advantages of it. In means of these, I tried to design and implement a new course design based on the features of multiple intelligence theory and advantages of using literature instead of implementing conventional, stereotyped teaching method to increase my students? class participation level in business English classes by enhancing the quality of learning and teaching processes. In this action research study, I aimed to portray the positive impacts of integrating multiple intelligence theory into teaching and using literature in business English classes on students? class participation level.