😍😍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:
(reference: https://www.marcodegroen.com/impact-of-multimedia-in-education-for-children-with-special-needs/)
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
(http://teaching.monster.com/education/articles/7920-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-multimedia-teacher)
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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