陈红先

Abstract：This paper aims at exploring the approaches of improving and cultivating students sense of self-efficacy guided by MI Theory in middle school English teaching.

Key Words：Multiple-Intelligence Theory； sense of self-efficacy

I. The Concept of Multiple intelligence Theory and Sense of Self-Efficacy

The Theory of Multiple Intelligence stems from Gardner's work with brain-damaged patients at a Boston hospital During his work， he realized that the kind of damage that was suffered depended on the location of the injury in the brain；According to Gardner， intelligence dose not only exist in one single form like IQ. It not static either. In other words， people's intelligence can exist in many different forms and can develop and be developed over a life time. According to his Theory of Intelligence， Howard Gardner has classified nine types of Intelligence.

II. The Current Situation of Cultivating Middle School Students Self-Efficacy

Judging all the students in terms of their success in school learning with only one standard has many disadvantages， as many students become demotivated. When they are not doing well with linguistic or logical -mathematical intelligence， they are easily discarded as unable to learn properly. In fact， they own other intelligence which may prove them to be very intelligent， but unfortunately these intelligence which belong to an area remain undiscovered or unrecognized by the formal school system.

III. The Inspiration and Strategies of Cultivating Students Self-Efficacy by Ml Theory

1.The Strategies of Cultivating Students Self-Efficacy

Having seen through the inspiration of cultivating students sense of self-efficacy and the conception of cultivated everyone as a talented student； it is an effective way to combine Multiple Intelligence Theory with sense of self-efficacy in a new view to find out a feasible way to solve the problems that teachers are confronting with in the current test-oriented education system.

IV.Conclusion

To sum it up， it is totally efficient to cultivate students Sense of self-efficacy guided by MI Theory in middle school English teaching， not merely for the students， but also the development of teachers and the English education in China.

Bibliography：

[1] Bandura， A. Self-efficacy：The exercise of control. New York：W.H. Freeman and Company， 1997.