The Contribution of Students’ Linguistic Intelligence Towards Reading Comprehension

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10.2991/assehr.k.210325.054How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Contribution, Linguistic Intelligence, Reading Comprehension

Abstract

Linguistic intelligence is the students’ ability in using words in speaking and writing. It becomes one of the important factors that influence the students’ reading comprehension, because it is related with individual’s intelligence in understanding a language. This study is aimed to find out the contribution of students’ linguistic intelligence toward reading comprehension. This study was document analysis and the data were analyzed descriptively. As a result of this study, it was found that the students’ linguistic intelligence gave significant contribution toward reading comprehension. These data were analyzed by the researcher from some qualified journals. It also found that there were some characteristics of the students who have dominant linguistic intelligence. Moreover, the students’ linguistic intelligence cannot be ignored because it was indicated as a strong predictor of the students’ reading comprehension. It also showed that the students with well-developed of linguistic intelligence showed interest in reading activity that reflected to their reading comprehension.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yufebri Rahmadina
AU  - Jufrizal
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/26
TI  - The Contribution of Students’ Linguistic Intelligence Towards Reading Comprehension
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 303
EP  - 308
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210325.054
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210325.054
ID  - Rahmadina2021
ER  -