摘　要

随着社会的不断发展，各种矛盾突出，21世纪人才竞争激烈。各国都一致认为只有努力培养大学生成为优秀的全面发展的外语人才并且开发他们潜在的智能，提高自己的综合素质，才能应对多变复杂的社会压力，满足社会多样化的需求。美国著名心理学家霍德华•加德纳提出了多元智能理论。本文通过对该理论的分析并结合我国当前大学英语教学的现状，提出了具体可行的英语教学方法。它启示教师应注重学生的个性，形成以学生为中心的教学观，重视英语知识的应用。多元智能理论自身固有的优势显示了其指导大学英语教学的可能优越性。同时，文章指出教师应在理论的基础上，根据学生的智能特点，优化大学英语教学设计，多角度，全方位地开展英语教学。

关键词：大学生；多元智能；英语教学
 
Abstract

With the society’s consist development, the various contradictions highlights and talent competition in the 21st century is very fierce. The country all over the world believe that only try to foster the college students become excellent English talents with all-round competence developed and develop their potential intelligences to improve own comprehensive quality entirely, do the country deal with the complex and changeable society’s pressure and to meet society’s various need. The famous American psychologist Howard Gardner put forward the multiple intelligence theory. This paper put forward specific and feasible method of English teaching by analyzing this theory and combining the current college English teaching situation in our country. The theory enlightens teachers should pay attention to the students’ individual character, form the teaching view of student-centered and focus on English knowledge’s application. The MI theory’s own inherent advantages show that it has possibility and superiority when it guides college English instruction.Meanwhile, the article also points out that teachers should be based on the theory, according to their cognitive characteristics and optimize college English teaching design to carry out the English teaching comprehensively with multi-angle.

Key words: college students; Multiple Intelligence Theory; English instruction

1 Introduction   
    Nowadays, human being come into 21st century that is full of all kinds of competitions and pressure. The competition between countries become fierce. In a word, what they compete each other is about the talent. Only foster the young people become all-round developed talents, does the country has the bright future.
    All the developing countries all over the world have reached a agreement that college students should not only learn foreign language well but also have other abilities developed. This presents much heavy pressure to all the college English instruction in China.