Week3
The use of Multimedia in English Teaching
The Definition of Multimedia
Multimedia: the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way.
Component of Multimedia
Multimedia is composed of various components: text, graphics, animation, sound, and video. These components can contribute differentially to the learning of material.
Text. It is fundamental element in all multimedia applications. It convey most information. We can use ordinary text or various typographic effect for emphasis or clarification in English teaching.
Graphics. It refer to images and pictures, such as chart, diagram, and photograph, which contain on movement.
Animation. Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of image of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.
Sound. It is speech, music, or any other sound that is stored and produced by computers.
Video. It is the visible part of a television transmission and broadcasts visual image of stationary or moving objects.
The Setting of Multimedia Classroom
To ensure that reader can obtain a better understanding of multimedia English teaching, an illustration of a typical one-multimedia-PC classroom setting is vital and necessary.
- MPC— multimedia personal computer
- VCD/DVD player — video compound disk/digital video disk
- Amplifier and Hi-Fi acoustic system
- Overhead/ slide projector
- Screen/curtain
- Projecting apparatus
- The Internet access
- Cassette tape recorder
- Camera recorder
The Necessity of Multimedia in English Teaching
The Necessity of Development of Modern Education Technology
We can say that modern education technology must lead to development of multi-media teaching. Only multimedia teaching can develop and improve the modern education technology well.
The Need of Quality Education
Multimedia English teaching 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 Need of Students’ Cognitive Mental
Cognitive psychology studies have shown that 94% of the information learned through the visual and auditory access, of which 88% is obtained through the vision 12% through hearing.
The Multimedia Teaching
Advantages
Arousing the students’ interest. Multimedia is this kind of media which can show a variety of sounds, image, animation, and other effects, firmly grasping the student’s interest. It also can stimulate the students’ interest strong desire to study English actively.
Improving students’ self-learning ability. The most important thing is teaching students how ti 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. Multi-media teaching can also develop student’s ability to innovate. 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. Chinese students learning English often lack a certain language environment and opportunities for practicing language, but the actual language teaching is often to focus only on words and sentence structures of learning, ignoring its specific application. 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.
Problem
Multimedia breaks the original traditional model— “blackboard+chalk” model for us to create new modernized teaching methods to overcome the drawbacks of traditional teaching.
Confusion. Some English classes are totally dependent on multi-media, ignoring the role of teachers.
Performance on behalf of the lead. Students only pay attention to appreciating the picture, and do not pay attention to what they should really master in the classroom.
Lack of special skill. There are many multimedia teachers who just have half-baked knowledge. It is a challenge for teachers to use multimedia equipments sometime.
Over-use of multimedia. They turn the multimedia classroom into a show stage and what they act in class is nothing but a new generation of button-pusher. 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. In the English class it is found the interaction and busy with machine operation—computer, DVD player, overhead projector, courseware—whic might even get the proficient teachers busy, let alone those unskilled. The teachers will pay much attention to machine rather than students.
Strategies for Using Multimedia
Combining Modern Teaching Method 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
That mean not every class need multimedia teaching. One important principle is: When simple is best, keep it simple. Therefore, multimedia can only be used as a supplement to classroom English teaching.
Strengthening Teacher Training
It is a challenge for teachers using multimedia because of heavy preparation work and increasing workload. In the light of the problems the teachers should be trained with the use of modern equipment.
The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted Teaching
1.Scientific principles. Namely, courseware design cannot appear any error.
2.Subsidiary principles. 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.
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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