Howard Gardner’s theory on multiple intelligences suggests that all humans are capable of acquiring knowledge through one of the known intelligences, namely Linguistic, Musical, Logical-mathematical, Spatial, Body-kinesthetic, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Naturalistic and Existential. Depending on which type of intelligence one person has developed most, he or she will find it easier to acquire any type of knowledge. This is a very powerful tool for teachers, even though the theory was not intended primarily for educational purposes. The problem we face as teachers is the fact that most of the times we cannot reach all learners in a classroom, let that be for lack of time or for the large amount of students in class. Considering the Multiple Intelligences theory may be helpful if we intend to adapt our teaching process so that all our students acquire what we wish. In the case of language learning, this is particularly useful because we tend to think of language learning as active and dynamic lectures, a medium in which the MI theory can result extremely effective.

In the present paper we intend to present a proposal of techniques to improve our learners’ results by looking at certain aspects of the Multiple Intelligences theory, particularly from the point of view of the musical type of intelligence. We defend this type of teaching as a means to increase learners’ autonomy, self-assessment and language acquisition, which we find to be key concepts in the teaching-learning process. We will show how we have been working with this type of intelligence as a complement to other works we have been carrying out on the MI theory and which can be seen at the bibliography.
By applying this type of intelligence we want to emphasize the fact that all learners are important in our classroom and that the success of our learners’ acquisition of language depends to a great extent on an effort in the teaching process. Therefore we pay particular attention to the two-folded process of learning / teaching.
The conclusion will show that the use of this type of intelligence in combination with the other types throughout the year will prove especially effective in our educational task, taking into account the relationship between music and the linguistic abilities that we expect from our students.