A Study On Application Of The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences To Grammar Teaching In Senior High Schools

The theory of multiple intelligences provided by Howard Gardner has made a tremendous impact on the reformation and development of education all over the world in the past several decades. In China, it is a powerful theoretical support for educators to promote educational reformation, implement educational policy and design classroom teaching. In these years it has been applied to many kinds of subjects and obtained outstanding results. Through researching journal articles, the theory was seldom used to guide English grammar teaching. This study will design teaching cases based on the intelligences distribution and the law of somatopsychic development of the students. The aims are departing from traditional teaching method and guiding students to achieve real understanding of grammar knowledge.The English teaching in middle school mainly served examination, therefore, grammar knowledge was given priority and the communication competence was secondary. But the results of grammar teaching were not satisfactory. The main reason was the only usage of Grammar-Translation Method which makes students feel boring and leads to an inefficient study. This method places emphasis on analyzing sentence structures and syntax rules. It is helpful to cultivate students’ abilities of reading, translating and writing, except using grammar knowledge in the real situation. According to the theory of multiple intelligences, students’ intelligences distribution can be discovered by observing, interviewing and using questionnaire. Based on those information, teachers can design the teaching cases by using the method of "seven entry points", "analogy" and "approaching to core", which is on the initiative of Howard Gardner,to make grammar teaching more sufficient. The problems need to be solved in this research are as follows:1. Whether the Theory of Multiple Intelligences is suitable for grammar teaching.2. Whether the cases designed by the research are suitable for the intelligences needs of the students.3. Whether the teaching methods designed by the research can improve thedeficiencies in grammar teaching and improve students’ abilities to apply grammar.