The Use
of Multimedia in English Teaching
The Definition of
Multimedia
Multimedia: Multimedia is the exciting combination
of computer hardware and software that allows you to integrate video,
animation. audio, graphics. a test resources to develop effective presentations
on an affordable desktop computer.
Multimedia:
the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in
an integrated way.
The
Setting of Multimedia Classroom
An illustration of a typical
one-multimedia-PC classroom setting is vital and necessary.
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
Advantages
- - Arousing
the students’ interest. 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 most important thing is teaching students how
to learn and making students change from “want me to study” to “I want to
learn” in thinking, from passive learning to active learning.
- - Improving
students’ innovative ability. 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. Multi-media teaching rhythm is adapted to the needs of
modernization to meet the student’s desire for knowledge. It can expand
text-related materials. 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:
Teaching English with multi-media has many problems.
- -Confusion.
Some English classes are totally dependent on multi-media, ignoring the role of
teachers.
- -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. Because of the teacher’s lack of enthusiasm and creation and his
or her dependence on the multimedia technology, the teachers act as sole
information-giver to the students.
-
-Lack of interaction between teachers and
students. The teachers in the multimedia classroom are busy with machine
operation—computer, DVD player, overhead projector, courseware—which might even
get the proficient teachers busy, let alone those unskilled.
- -Strategies
for Using MultimediaCombining Modern Teaching Methods with Traditional Teaching
Methods
- - Teachers
should combine their Traditional Teaching Methods with modern teaching methods,
which not only raise classroom teaching quality and efficiency, but also
improve teaching and learning environment between teachers and students.
