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ve and relaxing in which students can gain the senseof achievement in their strong fields. English teachers ought to get rid of thecomfortable zone of “teaching for teaching’s sake”. The design of diversifiedEnglish classroom activities can enrich the content of the class so that studentscan learn through activities and learn by doing. As a result, the teaching effectwill be greatly enhanced.
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Chapter 2 Literature Review

This chapter is the theoretical foundation of the study. In this part, the authordefines the multiple intelligences theory and presents the related theories of MIT.Then, the author introduces the basic elements and features of English teaching. Afterthat, the author gives a brief introduction on the related research about MIT andEnglish teaching both at home and abroad.

2.1 Multiple Intelligences Theory
In 1983, Gardner put forward the Multiple Intelligences Theory based on theresearch result of “Zero Project”. Although Multiple Intelligences theory was firstproposed from a psychological point of view, he turned to the educational field andthe educational significance of multiple intelligences theory was explored in the finalchapter of his well-known work Frames of Mind: the Theory of MultipleIntelligences.In 1979, scholars at Harvard, such as Howard Gardner, Charles Reigeluth, andDavid Perkins were involved in the “Zero Project” to explore the nature andrealization of human potential. In 1983, Gardner put forward his MultipleIntelligences Theory on the basis of the research result. He defined intelligence as“the ability to solve problems that one encounters in real life; the ability to generatenew problems to solve; the ability to make something or offer a service that is valuedwithin one’s culture” (Gardner, 1983: 77). His opinions on intelligences havechallenged the traditional view. Because previously accepted ideas of humanintellectual capacity insist that an individual’s intelligence is fixed through his lifetimeand that intelligence can only be measured through the logical and oral abilities.
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2.2 English Teaching
Since the study aims to apply Multiple Intelligences Theory to the wholeEnglish teaching process in the Senior High Classroom, different kinds of MIT-basedclassroom activities are presented in the following paragraphs to make sure peoplehave a more comprehensive and clearer perception on the applications of MIT in theEnglish classrooms.There will be a brief introduction on the basic elements of English teaching:listening, speaking, reading and writing. There is no doubt that they all play animportant role in the daily teaching process and it is necessary to design MIT-basedclassroom activities according to the different characteristics of each element.When it comes to the daily listening teaching, teachers can exercise students’logical-mathematical intelligence by asking them to predict the listening tasks of thepassage. Also, if we choose some video clips of the movie as the listening materials,not only one’s visual-spatial intelligence can be greatly enhanced and at the same time,the students will find learning English very entertaining and relaxing in that they areimmersed into the authentic learning situations. In addition, if we play some popularEnglish songs at the beginning of the class, then ask them the guess the main idea ofthe songs, the comfortable atmosphere will be created, so it w