The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching
ZHANG Zhen
Leshan Normal University, Leshan, China
🌼 The Definition of Multimedia
The use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way.
🌼 Components of Multimedia
💬 Text
🎃 Graphics
🎅 Animation
🎵 Sound
🎬 Video
🌼 The Necessity of Multimedia in English Teaching
📐 The Necessity of Development of Modern Educational Technology
📐 The Needs of Quality Education
📐 The Needs of Students’ Cognitive Mental
🌼 The Multimedia Teaching
🎅 Advantages
🎄 Arousing the students’ interest
Multimedia is this kind of media which can show a variety of sounds, images, animation, and other effects, firmly grasping the student’s interest. It also can stimulate the students’ strong desire to study English actively. Multi-media teaching can not only greatly stimulate students’ interest in learning, but also make teaching becomes vivid and lively.
🎄 Improving students’ self-learning ability
The use of multimedia will be conducive to transition for students from the traditional passive learning to active state for independent study. In this way, students can not only see their learning outcomes in the shortest period of time, but also continue stimulating interest in their own learning through the multimedia network.
🎄 Improving students’ innovative ability.
Meanwhile, multi-media teaching can also develop student’s ability to innovate. Things need to innovate, Einstein said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge, and is a source of knowledge”. In teaching, the teachers should pay attention to tap the imagination of students. To use multimedia can achieve the desired results and find unlimited resources in textbooks.
🎄 Cultivating students’ communication skills.
Through multi-media teaching, we can create real-life scenes in the classroom. It is not only to shorten the distance between teaching and practice and give students the opportunity to use English to communicate, but also to satisfy their curiosity in psychology and stimulate the expression of desire.
🎄 Increasing classroom capacity
The use of multimedia technologies can make students notice a clear knowledge and a new expansion by huge information capacity which shows by all kinds of media.
🎅 Problems
🎄 Confusion
🎄 Performance on behalf of the lead.
🎄 Lack of special skills
🎄 Over-use of multimedia
🎄 Lack of interaction between teachers and students
🎅 Strategies for Using Multimedia
🎄 Combining Modern Teaching Methods With Traditional Teaching Methods
🎄 Viewing Multimedia as the Assistance to Teaching
🎄 Building the Ideal Relationship Between Teachers and Students
🎄 Strengthening Teacher Training
🎅 The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted Teaching
🎄 Scientific principles. Namely, courseware design cannot appear any errors;
🎄 Subsidiary principle. We must always adhere to: Although multi-media teaching has many advantages, it is only a supplementary means, and does not substitute for the role of people.
🎄 Interactivity principle. More interactivity between teachers and students, students and multimedia, more effective results we will have.
🎄 Combination principle. Combine the advantages of modern teaching and the traditional teaching organically.
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