Poster-making activities promote EFL students’ speaking skills

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the effect of using poster-making activities as a multiple intelligences (MI) tool on improving learning motivation and developing English speaking skills for second-year English major students at Phu Yen University.

Based on the literature review and related studies, poster-making activities were selected for the English speaking training program. The experimental group consisted of 30 second-year students. Through poster-making activities, learners will have lots of opportunities to improve and develop their speaking English skills (Robert, 2015). Tools of the study included: A training program based on using poster-making activities as an MI tool to improve students’ learning motivation and develop their English speaking skills, an MI questionnaire, and 03 English Speaking pre-post tests administered to the experimental and controlled groups before and after the training course. The experimental English speaking training program was taught to students during a 15-week period. 

Key words: multiple intelligences, poster-making activities, motivation, speaking skills