USING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES THEORY TO FACILITATE PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS’ DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS AND CREATIVITIES IN UTILIZING INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA

The candidates of English teachers or pre-service English teachers in Indonesia are faced with challenges in the growing world of education. They must have a good provision and adequate capabilities in planning and implementing teaching-learning activities. Therefore, the courses they take in the Faculty of Education in which they are prepared as prospective and competent teachers in the field, should be designed in a way meeting those needs. However, in teaching English as a foreign language, developing ideas and creativities are in fact considered difficult; one of which is developing ideas and creativities in utilizing instructional media for teaching English. EFL teachers in Indonesia tend to employ the same instructional media in almost all learning activities they engage. This pattern triggers negative impact on learners’ motivation and achievement. This Classroom Action Research (CAR) is thus implemented of which aim is to determine how the theory of Multiple Intelligences can facilitate the development of ideas and creativities of the students of English Education Department of Kanjuruhan University of Malang in utilizing instructional media in teaching English. The findings show that by using the theory of Multiple Intelligences, the pre-service English teachers are able to develop their ideas and creativities in utilizing instructional media for teaching English. Theory of Multiple Intelligences opens wide possibilities for teachers to develop their ideas and creativities in utilizing instructional media because instead of using the same media all of the time, alternatively there are other eight media selections available based on the existing eight types of intelligence