The
Use of Multimedia in English Teaching
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.
-
Lack of interaction between teachers
and students
Strategies for Using Multimedia
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.
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