TY - JOUR ID - 54862 TI - Oral communication strategies and multiple intelligences: Exploring the relationship JO - Teaching English Language JA - TEL LA - en SN - 2538-5488 AU - Roohani, Ali AU - Heidari, Najmeh AD - Shahrekord University Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 97 EP - 125 KW - oral communication strategies KW - multiple intelligence(s) KW - EFL learners KW - nonverbal strategies KW - spatial intelligence DO - 10.22132/tel.2013.54862 N2 - This study explored the relationship between the use of oral communication strategies (OCSs) and multiple intelligence(s) (MI) of Iranian EFL learners. In addition, it investigated what type of intelligence(s) could act as the best predictor of OCSs. To these ends, Nakatani's (2006) Oral Communication Strategy Inventory and Armstrong's (1994) MI Inventory were used to collect data from 120 homogenous intermediate EFL participants selected from a larger sample at Shahrekord and Arak universities. The data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially using correlation and multiple regression procedures. Results showed that among strategies for coping with speaking problems, the participants perceived themselves higher at 'message-abandonment', 'nonverbal', and 'message reduction and alteration' strategies, and among strategies for coping with listening problems, they perceived themselves higher at 'word-oriented' and 'nonverbal' strategies. Also, logical intelligence was the leading intelligence type and musical intelligence was the least common type of intelligence. Moreover, there was a positive relationship between spatial intelligence and OCSs, with the spatial intelligence as the best predictor of the use of OCSs. UR - http://www.teljournal.org/article_54862.html L1 - http://www.teljournal.org/article_54862_671fe452e3bc8c2ba7300941bf81b6c1.pdf ER -