The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching ++

The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching 

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The Definition of Multimedia

          Multimedia is the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way.

Components of Multimedia

          Multimedia is composed of text, graphics, animation, sound, and video.

                Text : It is fundamental element in all multimedia application, so teacher can use different font size, color, and style to present information for emphasize a certain word or phrase.

           Graphics : Graphics plays a very important role in language teaching process because it can stimulate interesting and motivation, improve understanding ability of language that refers to images and pictures, such as chart, diagram, and photograph, which contain no movement.

          Animation : Animation is the rapid display of sequence of image of 2D or 3D artwork. Assisted by the use of animation, teacher can highlight key knowledge points and heighten students' motivation.

          Sound : It can use more vivid and fruitful sound to help students’ English learning .

          Video : It is the visible part of a television transmission and broadcasts visual image of stationary or moving objects. Compared with animation, video can offer more vivid information. But it will consume more storage space than animation.

The Setting of Multimedia Classroom

        1.MPC : multimedia personal computer

        2.VCD/DVD player : video compound disk/digital video disk

        3.Amplifier and Hi-Fi acoustic system

        4.Overhead/slide projector

        5.Screen/curtain

        6.Projecting apparatus

        7.The Internet access

        8.Cassette tape recorder

        9.Camera recorder

The Necessity of Development of Modern Educational Technology

The Necessity of Multimedia in English Teaching

   Modern Education Technology can promotes the development and but also promotes the development of educational methods and means but also promotes the development of educational thinking and models. That modern educational technology must lead to development of multi-media teaching. Only multimedia teaching can develop and improve the modern education technology well.

The Needs of Quality Education

  The multimedia English language teaching can enable students to be involved in a variety of sensory organ in the learning process and stimulate the students in the corresponding cortical function area and also it can provides a good educational platform and adds vigor for quality education enabling students to change and update their thinking from the traditional teaching,  thereby enhancing the quality of all aspects.

The Needs of Students' Cognitive Mental

   The multimedia teaching system can fully mobilize the student and thus get the best of the cognitive effect.Therefore, using multimedia teaching is very necessity, especially in English teaching; only effective co-ordination of multimedia can better complete the teaching task.

The Multimedia Teaching

 To using multimedia in classroom, there is both advantage and disadvantage. So, teacher should their students when they find the problems. Those are as followings:

Advantages :

   - Arousing the students' interest.

   - Improving students' self-learning ability.

   - Improving students' innovative ability.

   - Cultivating students' communication skills.

   - Increasing classroom capacity.

Problems

   Confusion

      It is the problem that teachers have directly brought at a CD-ROM couseware for student's lesson and just completely ignore the "teaching - centered" teaching thinking, completely change into a multimedia - centered thinking.

  

Performance on behalf of the lead

      The teaching process is that teachers arouse students' enthusiasm and guide students to active learning.Multimedia just only provides a supporting role in the process.

  

Lack of Special Skills

      The unskilled operation on computer would affect the instruction flow, which in turn would de-motive students if it happened frequently in class.

  

Over-use of multimedia

      Multimedia have many benefits that can help to teach students but teachers over use multimedia. The teachers act as sole information giver to the students.

Strategies for Using Multimedia

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Combining Modern Teaching Methods With Traditional Teaching Methods

     Teachers should combine their strong points with modern teaching methods, which not only raise classroom teaching quality and efficiency, but also improve teaching and learning environment between teachers and students.

Viewing Multimedia as the Assistance to Teaching

   Application of multimedia technology aims to improve teaching, but teaching is not intended for multimedia. There is no doubt that teaching needs multimedia, but using multimedia, but using multimedia does not mean enhancing teaching efficiency. Multimedia can only be used as a supplement to classroom English teaching.

Building the Ideal Relationship Between Teachers and Students.

Strengthening Teachers Training.

   Multimedia assisted English teaching requires teachers with multimedia computer operating experience.

The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted Teaching.

   1.Scientific principle. Namely, courseware design cannot appear any errors.

   2.Subsidiary principle. It is only a supplementary means, and does not substitute for the role of people.

   3.Interactivity principle. More interactivity between teachers and students, students and multimedia, more effective results we will have.

   4.Combination principle. Combine the advantages of modern teaching and the traditional teaching organically.