Masoumeh Arjmandi

Linguistic Intelligence and Reading Comprehension Ability: the Relationship Between Linguistic Intelligence and Reading Comprehension Ability in Iranian Intermediate Efl Learners Masoumeh Arjmandi

Intelligence has constantly been the matter of debate and interest in the field of psychology. Even in the idea of untaught people, a prosperous person is owed to his/her intelligence. During the past century many psychologists, researchers and theoretician have become involved and attracted by various intelligence theories. The first intelligence test was invented by the French psychologist, Alfred Binet. The investigations on the correlation between intelligence and achievement was the interest of the researchers for studies. In this study the researcher studied the relationship between linguistic intelligence and reading comprehension ability. Teachers, instructors and language learners can benefit from the results of the study.