Recent years have witnessed the problems of low efficiency in English vocabulary teaching and learning between college teachers and students. However, due to the fact that the teachers can not work out an effective way to help students learn the vocabularies, vocabulary teaching is a challenge for teachers in college. Hence, it is high time for the teachers to explore an efficient English teaching methods and strategies to arouse students' interest as well as improve their English vocabulary levels. In this paper, the author regards the current situations of college English vocabulary teaching as the object of research, and tries to draw a conclusion to indicate the feasibility of vocabulary teaching based on MIT which can provide enlightenment to vocabulary teaching. The author presents different teaching methods and analyzes their characteristics through observing classroom vocabulary teaching, which greatly reflects students’ performance in class. In brief, multiple intelligences theory has positive impact on the college English vocabulary teaching since it can improve our teaching quality and increase students’ learning interests, therefore it is well worth our studying.

Xiangyong Jiang, Lanzi Zhou. Application of Multiple Intelligences Theory to English Vocabulary Teaching in College. Frontiers in Educational Research (2020) Vol. 3 Issue 1: 41-52. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2020.030107.

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