Multiple intelligence theory and foreign language learning : a brain-based perspective

摘要

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory is presented as a cognitive perspective on intelligencewhich has profound implications for education in general. More specifically, it has led to theapplication of eight of these frames to language teaching and learning. In this chapter, we willargue in favour of the application of MIT to the EFL classroom, using as support some of themajor insights for language teaching from brain science.