TheApplicationofMultimediainEnglishTeaching

1、多媒体在英语教学中的应用the application of multimedia in english teachingcontentsabstract.1key words.1iintroduction .1iithe literature review .3iiithe features of english teaching.4ivthe features of multimedia teaching.51. advantages of application of multimedia in english teaching.61) comparisons with traditio

2、nal presentation aids.62)advantages.7 2. disadvantages of application of multimedia in english teaching.10vthe prospect of application of multimedia in english teaching121. a combination of multimedia technology and internet 12viconclusion.14references.14the application of multimedia in english teac

3、hing abstract: multimedia, a term widely used in the field of computer, provides a new method for education, especially for english teaching. it has great impact on the notion of traditional teaching and apparently contributes to english teaching reform. the application of multimedia technique is an

4、 important and inevitable trend in the present educational development as well as in modern foreign language teaching. in order to improve the students abilities in english, its worthwhile to do some research into this technique. referring to the different effects produced by the application of mult

5、imedia in english teaching, the paper has stated the development of multimedia, pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of multimedia in english teaching, and gone into the prospects of this technique.key words: multimedia; english teaching; application; multimedia technique摘 要：多媒体，这一广泛流传于计算机领域

6、的术语，为教育尤其是为英语教学提供一个现代化的教学手段，对传统的教学观念产生了巨大的冲击，为英语教学改革做出贡献。多媒体技术手段的应用是现代教育的一个重要发展方向，也是当今外语教学的发展趋势。应用多媒体技术为英语教学服务，全面提高学生的英语语言能力,是值得探讨和研究的问题。本文概述了多媒体的发展，多媒体技术在英语教学中的应用进行分析，指出它在实际教学中的优势与不足，并对其发展趋势进行了探讨。关键词：多媒体；英语教学；应用; 多媒体技术.i. introductionthe application of multimedia technology is an important developi

7、ng trend in education and modern foreign language teaching. it owns practical meaning in english teaching and has great value towards teachers and students.in the 21st century, with the development of modern technology and information, application of the modern technology in teaching is a inenarrabl

8、e trend in the future. firstly, our society begins to step into digital period, so improving the efficiency, to a great degree, is also a necessary educational reform; the school should adjust the principle to the development of the society. teachers should learn to use multimedia in english teachin

9、g, which is also beneficial to students. secondly, i hope this thesis can help teachers in this period to change their traditional concept and improve their own teaching quality. this is the main reasons for choosing this topic.multimedia technology especially the application in english teaching is

10、a new subject to all of the people. with the development of information technology and the development of the reform of english teaching, people have paid more and more attention to the application of multimedia in english teaching. in recent years, english educators query that the traditional engli

11、sh teaching continuously and put forward that the reform of english teaching is of great urgency, while the application of multimedia provides new and advanced teaching methods. in order to reclaim the thoughts of english reform, we must know about the multimedia first.multimedia is a complex techno

12、logy but widespread in society. whats the multimedia? multimedia means under the control of computer merging the visual image, image and sound systems in different levels, through the computer to make them interact with each other. multimedia technology refers to the technology that process, pick up

13、, edit, store and show two or more types of information. multimedia can not only help students to listen to native language, but also can let students imitate and make dialogues with each other, improve the efficiency and interest in english learning. they do not only possess the function of tape-re

14、corder but also can show the words and pictures. students can practice listening just like staying in the vivid situation. in recent ten years, with the great improvement of technology, the application of multimedia brings a series of reforms to society. new century brings new challenges to middle s

15、chool english teaching, many important schools have installed multimedia language lab, renovated the precious visual system, improved the teaching condition and promoted the reform process of english teaching. in the past, we used the traditional equipments such as tape-recorder, projector, video, b

16、ut to a certain degree that arent modern medium, now more and more schools have been applying multimedia in teaching, especially during the process of classroom teaching.ii. literature reviewunderstanding the definition of multimedia contribute to applying it in english teaching. different people ha

17、ve different opinions on it. multimedia can be understood to combine the multimedia teaching with all kinds of modern media. this combination supplements the function of unidirectional teaching medium, but the information of medium cannot be handled for the whole. multimedia, a term widely used in t

18、he fields of it, provides a new method of education especially in english teaching. it has great impact on the notion of traditional teaching. apparently it also contributes to english teaching reform, as the journal of college of mechenghuhai university points out. but lijianhua (2005) believes tha

19、t it contains two or more dissemination of media. the multimedia technology is composed of hypertext, image, flash, and sound medium to process and control english teaching. each factor of multimedia is combined organically to finish a series of interactive operations. different people have their ow

20、n opinions on multimedia technology, but they also have something in common. in society, the information is transmitted in different ways. since 1980s, the multimedia computer have been applied, the meaning of multimedia has changed a lot. the background of change can be presented as follows: first

21、of all, people have requirement that the multimedia should be dealt with integrally, and the capacity of interaction should be improved. second, each media can pick up, store, and transform information digitally. third, with the development of storage skills and marketlization, large capacity of dig

22、ital information of multimedia is a carrier which can be separated and applied. just because of these reasons, multimedia become a synthetically skill in reality. at present, multimedia refers to the process and applies in english teaching besides the multimedia information itself. technology and fo

23、reign language education have close relation to each other. in the sixties and seventies, language laboratories were being installed in numerous educational settings. the traditional language laboratory was comprised of a series of booths, each providing a cassette deck, and accompanying microphone

24、and headphone. teachers monitored their students' interactions by using a central control panel. the basic premise behind this technology was that if verbal behavior was modeled, and then reinforced, students would quickly learn the language by asking questions. the language lab activities were

25、therefore grounded in a stimulus-response behavior pattern. the more drills the students practiced, the faster they would learn the second language, while the language laboratory was a positive step in linking technology to language education. furthermore, the amount of student-teacher interaction w

26、as minimal, and individualized instruction was irrelevant. besides the pedagogical deficiencies, the audio equipment was cumbersome and prone to breakdown, and had only one function to disseminate auditory input. the application of multimedia in english teaching can avoid these aspects and will be w

27、idely applied in modern times. iii. the features of english teachingunited with the character of english teaching, multimedia will play an important role in english teaching. we can find some views of points in foreign language teaching and research. the practices of english teaching accumulate abun

28、dant english teaching methods. generally speaking, it contains five stages: comparison-directive, translation, structure, function. three major factors fulfill the stages: teacher, students, and resources. we should deal with the relation among them very well. as is known to all, language is not phe

29、nomenon of intelligence, it is a behavior of human being, it is formed during the process of thinking. just as estlon said, “language is a tool of communication, also a carrier of thoughts and information. learning a language means mastering new signs.” it is a special process of recognition. this s

30、pecial character of language teaching distinguishes from other teaching methods. the aim of english teaching is to cultivate the students ability to know, apply and master english. concerning the second language acquisition, people have tried a lot. computer can provide the experience of studying fr

31、om all the sides and it can make young people achieve the ideal level in months rather than years by traditional way. language learning is a process, which is both easy and hard. “easy” means everybody can speak at least one language or dialect. “hard” means that the speed of making progress is too

32、slow, most of people cant reach the final goal (shudingfang 2004). the key to learning language is to offer students a good language environment. the teacher should set up an english learning “pool” and students can acquire the knowledge of language by imitating it frequently and using it in many wa

33、ys. with the implementation of curriculum reform into its second phase, english classroom teaching and learning activity are not only limited to impart the knowledge and study itself, but also focus on students growth, that is, the development of their ability to learn and practice. stern (1982) bel

34、ieves that acquiring a second language involves three basic tasks: acquisition of knowledge, negotiation of language and language production. use of the internet can facilitate each of these processes. according to quesada (2000:5), there are varieties of english exercises online, the difficulty var

35、ies according to different learning levels, and these exercises can be evaluated instantly. quesada adds that “the graphics, sound, animation, and other forms of information found on the internet provide support for student understanding of the information, and meaningful production both oral and wr

36、itten”. herrell (2000:134) notes that students receive helpful assistance from computer multimedia in the production of “oral presentations.” in this sense, the design of the internet-enhanced course can “increase qualitative variation in classroom language use and thereby expand learners access to

37、second language discourse.”iv. the features of multimedia teaching the first feature of multimedia teaching system emphasizes on the individual character in the teaching process. the priority of such multimedia approach is that the learner can arrange and control their own time and energy and the wh

38、ole teaching schedule in close accordance with their own actual situations and interests.the second feature involves the changes of the teaching materials. it means that with the development of the multimedia, the teaching contents become very instructive, vivid and symbolized. more and more materia

39、ls and reference books are made into software. whether a learner likes to choose teaching software or to pick up some audio-visual exercises just depends on his or her own interest and actual starting point. in such a case, a teachers duty is just to offer some advice or guidance so that the learner

40、 may use suitable kinds of software or tell him or her to follow any necessary instructions on how to use any software program available.the third feature of multimedia teaching is that it can raise the students learning consciousness. multimedia aided computer teaching programs have already greatly

41、 changed the traditional “duck-feeding” teaching method in hope for the learners to control the whole teaching process so as to cultivate the students self-exploring spirit. everything to teach is “prefabricated” as the main points in the software menu. what the students need to do is to enter into

42、specific program to learn the detailed materials to be presented on the screen.the fourth feature is that multimedia teaching helps to promote the students learning cooperation. it is a developing orientation of the present international education and it contains three forms: cooperating throughout

43、the internet, e.g. students learn together on the internet; cooperating in front of the internet, e.g. group work; cooperating with the internet, e.g. the internet acts as the students companion. the combination of audio and visual effects can help to make the whole language knowledge and skill tran

44、sfer and impartation more dynamic, immediate and more easily accessible. it can stimulate the students interest and strengthen their sense of combination.1. advantages of application of multimedia in english teaching 1) a comparison with traditional presentation aids we compare the traditional way w

45、ith the modern multimedia. the traditional mode is instructed by traditional concept “give-accept” mode. the main purpose is to teach knowledge, develop intelligence. the character of this mode is teacher-centered, but we can also find different methods in modern multimedia teaching.in the first pla

46、ce, there is a very important motivational factor when using presentation software. teachers can choose the background and foreground colors, texture, design, layout, font and graphics for each slide. the lengthy involvement in the integration of content and form adds value to the experiential langu

47、age learning process. these observations are consistent with the results reported by phinney (1996) on a study that she and khouri conducted in 1992. in this study, students were given a choice of doing an electronic final paper or a "traditional paper." the results showed that students wh

48、o did the electronic paper enjoyed it very much, spent more time on the project than the others, and seemed to be more involved in their product. secondly, when teachers have to write something that their students not only hear, but also see, they are much more committed to the quality of their work

49、 both content and form. the spoken word is ephemeral; the written word remains. as a result, students revise their presentations, and it seems this revision and recycling process enhances language learning. thirdly, there is a clear difference between the preparation of presentation and the producti

50、on of computer slides. the computer presentation, in which students may include graphics, sound, and even video in addition to textual material, is something tangible, a true production of their own. in the transition from the traditional classroom to the modernized classroom, the changes in the tea

51、ching means completely remodel the modes of instructing, and lead to a pedagogical revolution. the new teaching mode develops the teaching theories, and proposes to combine constructivism with technology, making alterations of traditional roles of the instructor, students, teaching materials and med

52、ia in the class. in the construction of the multimedia classroom, we mainly focus on two things: the instruction design of the multimedia and the application of the new mode in practice. under the guidance of teaching theories, we aim at the following four objectives in the teaching process-setting

53、up the central role of students, using the electronic courseware to increase the input in the classroom, offering students a chance of self-teaching out of the class, and the interpersonal emotion exchange between the instructor and students, thus optimizing the teaching effect. we go through the fo

54、ur stages of the instructional design-analysis stage, develop stage, design stage and evaluate stage to completely reform the mode of teaching and found stereoscopic multimedia-based classroom. in the instructional design of the curriculum, we attach importance to teaching such as the design of elec

55、tronic courseware, the development in the multimedia pedagogy, the combination of traditional teaching means and modern teaching means, the interaction between teacher and students, etc. on the sound base of multimedia, streaming media, flash, dream weaver, firework, frontpage, asp and other techniq

56、ues, to set up a virtual classroom is the aim to instruct the students in accordance of their aptitude.2) advantages the multimedia has entered many language classrooms along with the rapid development of modern technology. in recent years, with the development of media and computer technology, educ

57、ators have begun to make use of multimedia and technology to improve their teaching including language learning. this is particularly true in such englishspeaking countries as australia, usa. the results of vast majority of the published research on effectiveness of multimedia and technology in lang

58、uage instruction are encouraging. according to jonaseen and reeves (1996), there are two major approaches to using media and technology in schools: students learn from media and technology, and they learn with media and technology. learning from media and technology is often referred to computer-assisted instruction (cai). as for learning with technology, it is referred to in terms such as cognitive tools and constructivist learning environments. in doing so, learners are fully involved in the learning process. fif