Exploring English Classroom Activities to Develop Students' Multiple Inteligence

This study is aimed to figure out the classroom activities that are used by the lecturers in teaching English and the students’ participation in English classroom activities. There are ten students and one lecturer of English Department in the first semester as the research participants. Two techniques of data collection were used in this research. The first technique was observation that was conducted in English classroom and the second technique was semi-structured interview. The findings of the current study indicated that the English classroom activities used by the lecturer were lecturing, writing, reading, discussion, word game, listening to music or song, singing song, playing music instrument, self-esteem building and problem solving. The lecturer only used activities that developed linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical and intrapersonal intelligence. Furthermore, the students’ participation in English classroom activities was good. They were actively participated by giving or answering the questions, paying attention to the lecturers’ explanation and following the lecturers’ instruction. Their participation tended to increase when the lecturer optimized activities that may potentially develop their multiple intelligence.