Multiple Intelligences
This research aims to use the Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (MI) for the enhancement of learning in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, in the United Arabs Emirates (UAE) in addition to analyzing the interinfluences of Emirati English and Emirati Arabic.The first part of the study represents the sociolinguistic aspects in the UAE. It explores the interinfluence of Emirati Arabic and English: Arabic prepositions’ influence in the Emirati English, English words used in the Emirati Arabic, interference in pronunciation and in verb tenses, and code switching. All these variants and their occurrences will be analyzed in terms of age, gender, and educational achievements, three crucial social variables concerning linguistic behavior (Labov, 1972; Alahmadi, 2016).To accomplish this, we will administer questionnaires and record Emirati high schoolers (17-18 years of age) and Emiratis from 38 to 50 years of age, this means a generation gap of at least 20 years1. These students and alumni will also be invited to answer a second questionnaire related to the education system in the UAE: the number of subjects whose instructions are in English and the level of difficulty that the language involves; whether the evaluation system is based solely on exams or if there is progressive assessment. Among other questions we would like to know if the classes are book-centered, if there are activities which take place outside the classroom, and if activities are carried out individually or in group – important variant for interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences...