Author(s)

Hui Xu

Corresponding Author

Hui Xu

Abstract

In the 1980s, Harvard University educational psychologist Howard Gardner first proposed the theory of multiple intelligence. He proposed the concept of “smart home evaluation” and expanded the foundation of student learning assessment. For a long time, due to the profound influence of exam-oriented education, English classroom teaching has overemphasized “knowledge transfer“. Teachers often concentrate on the explanation of grammar rules and the mode of mechanical drills. The theory of multiple intelligences explains the way of intelligence and the development of intelligence in individual students from a new perspective. It goes beyond the previous practice of focusing only on speech language intelligence and logical and mathematical intelligence while ignoring the development of other intelligence. The theory of multiple intelligences provides new ideas and references for our education and teaching reform from another angle. English language teaching should proceed from students' reality, fully embody students' principal position, and improve and develop students' intelligence.

Keywords

Multiple Intelligence Theory, English Teaching, Teaching Reform