A Study on the Relationship between Learners’ Listening Comprehension Achievements and their Multiple Intelligence Groups

This research aims to find out whether Nero linguistic Programming (NLP)-based listening activities have any effects on listening comprehension achievement of English language learners with regard to Multiple Intelligence (MI) groups. 32 students (21 female, 11 male) took part in this experimental study, all from the department of English Language Teaching of a university in the Spring Term of the 2010-2011 Academic Year. A standardized test was given to the subjects to measure their listening comprehension achievements. The alpha coefficient of the test was found to be .89. To measure the learners MI groups, a multiple intelligence inventory developed by the researcher was used. Cronbach Alpha coefficient reliability of the inventory was found to be .83. In the analysis of the data, valid statistical software was used utilizing such techniques as arithmetic mean, standard deviation, percentage, t-test and single-factor covariance. The significance level of the tests was taken as .05. As a result of the analysis of the research, differences were observed between the students in compliance with certain MI groups though some of them were not statistically significant.