2. To Promote Students’ Communication Capacity In-class activities as group discussion, subject discussion, and debates
can also offer more opportunities for communication among students, so multimedia technology teaching has uniquely inspired
students’ positive thinking and communication skills in social practice.
3. To Widen Students’
Knowledge to Gain an Insightful Understanding to Western Culture. Multimedia
Courseware -
more plentiful than textbooks -help students to improve their listening ability and learn the western culture. Grasping information through various channels - make the students with knowledge. - make students actively participate in class
discussion and communication
4. To Improve Teaching
Effect - enrich teaching content and make the best of class time - creates more vivid, visual, authentic environment for English learning,
stimulates students’ initiatives
5. To
Improve Interaction Between Teacher and Student Using multimedia in
context creation creates a good platform for the exchange between teachers
and students.
6. Creates a Context for
Language teaching When using multimedia software, teachers can use
pictures and images to enrich the content of classes, and also imagine
different contexts in the process of producing teaching courseware, Students in
the class can use multimedia to understand the class in a clear way.
7. To Provide Flexibility
Course Content Multimedia
teaching can be created not only in the classroom, but also after class.
Multimedia language teaching can also create a multimedia language environment
for the purpose of conducting language teaching.
Problems Arising from Application for
Multimedia Technology to English
Teaching
1. Major Means Replaced by the
Assisting One If totally dependent on,
multimedia devices during teaching, the teachers may be turned into slaves to
the multimedia. A lot of teachers are active in multimedia technology
application but not proficient enough to handle it confidently.
2. Loss
of Speaking Communication It
can result lack of communication between teachers and students, replacement of
teachers’ voice by computer sound, and teachers’ analysis by visual image and
students have’ few chances for speaking communication. English class turns to
course ware show and students are made viewers rather than the participants.
3. The
restriction of Students’ Thinking Potential - Question and answer
not demonstrate – real time, improve students’ thinking, cultivate their ability to
discover and solve problems. - Neglect
instruction of teaching but inspire students to think and strengthen their
thinking instead - Cultivate
student’s thinking should be major objective in teaching and using multimedia
technology and it should not take up the students’ time for thinking, analyzing
and exploring question.
4. Abstract Thinking Replaced by Imaginable Thinking At present the decreased
students' reading competence has become a major concern for reason that,
textual words are replaced by sound and image, handwriting by keyboard input.
