2.2.3 The theory of multiple intelligence

Howard Gardner put forward the multiple intelligence in Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligence in 1983 and he pided human beings’ intelligence into nine parts: linguistic intelligence, logical intelligence, visual intelligence, bodily intelligence, inter-personal intelligence, musical intelligence, intro-personal intelligence, naturalist and existentialist intelligence.

Each kind of intelligence is equally meaningful and important, so the aim of education is to help students be more intelligence rather than just focusing on the scores. Game teaching approach can use different games to promote teaching according to the characteristic of different students, helping different kinds of students develop their intelligence especially in the linguistic, visual and inter-personal aspects. Students show greater differences in English learning, so teachers need to design games and appropriately apply them in classroom teaching according to the inpidual differences of students (Zafar, 2012).

At the same time, game teaching approach can involve sound, movement, picture, story, reasoning and so on in English teaching which can train students to use multiple intelligence and maximize their inpidual characteristics.