EMPOWERING MINDS, TRANSFORMING FUTURES: ADVANCING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES THROUGH ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

The current study is anticipated to unearth the role of English Language Teaching (ELT) course outlines in advancing multiple intelligences among English Language Learners (ELLs) of Pakistan at primary level. In addition, it is also intended to figure out assorted layers of multiple intelligences and how these are nurtured through course contents among ELLs. To accomplish his intentions, the researcher has utilized a qualitative approach to analyse the data and to pencil in the upshots. Data has been extracted from course insides or outlines of ELT taught at the primary level all over Pakistan under SNC. For that, purposive sampling technique has been implied. Howard Gardner (1983) theory of multiple intelligences (MIs) has been manoeuvred as theoretical framework for data analysis.  To delimit the study, the data has been accumulated from ELT course outlines or contents of only grades IV and V. The findings designate that the ELT course inside is operated as a means to nurture linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, existential, logical mathematical, spatial, naturalistic, musical and bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence among ELLs of grades IV and V. The study is imperative as these stratums of intelligence have maximised ELLs’ cultural, social, emotional, naturalistic, musical, logical, and analytical persona and have authorized their learning into an inclusive and holistic approach.