Enforcing Linguistic Intelligence Method to Activate Students’ Literacy in English Economic Subject for Islamic Banking Department

Abstract

Activating students’ different kinds of intelligences is not easy for the educators in teaching English. Most educators focus on arousing students’ cognitive domain only. In fact, the students just comprehend the material based on the text book. They, however, cannot analyze the current information about economic they find in their daily life. While Regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia No.49/2014 about National Standard of Higher Education demands the educator to enable students to mobilize all intelligences they have which is in line with Bloom taxonomies, namely; cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domain. To solve the problems, the researcher applies MultipleIntelligences method for ESP students of Economic Faculty at IAIN Bukittinggi for English economic subject in which involve the three domains of skill with. The purpose of this method is to activate students’ verbal/linguistic competence. As a result, these materials are effective to prompt students’ multiple intelligences, especially linguistic competence. Ultimately, the SKL of higher education, which include attitudes, knowledge, general skill and specific skills, can be achieved.