Is It Possible To Be A Verbal Intelligent?

Watching TV and listening to radio broadcasts, an audience would notice splendid speakers who are able to present marvelous speeches that impress their audience. This arouses the question of whether great speakers are born with ability of using words in a way that affect people, or whether they were given a special kind of training that entitled them to be good speakers and writers. Despite the widespread belief that verbally intelligent people were born with this language ability, the truth is that the process of linguistic intelligence is acquired, not innate. Anyone can be a verbally intelligent person through learning and training in the use of the right word in the right place. Also, a person who has speech impediments and disorders can be a good speaker through learning and training. There are many examples of famous people who succeeded in being good speakers after suffering from speech impediments.

Psychologists have made many studies to determine the different types of intelligence, and found that there are about nine types of intelligence in the human race(Howard Gardner). Among these kinds of intelligence, verbal intelligence is the most likely kind to be acquired. One of the reasons that makes verbal intelligence an acquired skill is that there are many helpful strategies to increase this skill, such as word games, drawing pictures and writing a story about it, debate and group discussion, reading books and many other activities. Therefore, verbal intelligence is not inherited as what many people may think, but it is an acquired skill that a person can learn and increase. Inherited traits such as skin color, hair color, facial features and others are what can be called the inherited characteristics. P...

... middle of paper ...

...verbal intelligence. ”Normal language develops over a period and it is sequential or ordered” (Crystal,1992)

To sum up, whether verbal intelligence is an innate or a taught attribute, is an arguable issue. According to the previous evidences mentioned above, it is very clear that any person can be intelligent by doing some activities as well as having good training. Another proof that verbal intelligence is not instinct is that educated people are more intelligent than illiterate people. Verbal intelligence is a learning process that could be increased and improved constantly. Furthermore, many people who suffered from speech disorders had become spectacular speakers. Verbal intelligence is a controlled skill that can be increased by learning and practicing. Many people can use words efficiently if they apply strategies of increasing verbal intelligence.