Necessity of Application of Multimedia Technology to English Teaching

            🔍 To cultivate students' interest in study

              Multimedia technology offers a sense of reality and functions, which greatly cultivate students' interest and motivation in study.

             🔍 To promote students' communication capacity

                Multimedia technology teaching has uniquely inspired students' positive thinking and communication skills in social practice.

             🔍 To widen students' knowledge to gain an insightful understanding to western culture

                Grasping information through various channels can equip; the students with knowledge and bring about information-sharing among students and make them actively participate in class discussion and communication.

              🔍 To improve teaching effect

                Multimedia technology make the best of class time and break the "teacher-centered" teaching pattern and improve class efficiency.

                🔍 To improve interaction between teacher and student

                    Multimedia teachings stress the role of students, and enhances the importance of "interaction" between teacher and students.

                🔍 Creates a context for language teaching

                    Multimedia and network technology is a source of authentic language environment and arouses students' interest in learning English.

                🔍 To provide flexibility to course content

                    The context can be created not only in the classroom, but also after class.


        Suggestion and Strategies to The Exist Problems

            🔍 The beauty of courseware is not sole pursuit

                Multimedia is an instrument for assisting teaching, serves the teacher extraordinary  effect. While teaching teacher still play the leading role that can't replace by computer.

             🔍 The computer screen can't substitute the blackboard

                Perfect courseware is an idea project in mind, and they need to enrich the content on the blackboard with emerging of new question raised by the students.

              🔍 Power point cannot take the place of student's thinking and practice

                We need to encourage student to use their own mind and speak more, actively join in class practice.

               🔍Traditional teaching instruments and devices should not be overlooked

                Multimedia has its unique advantages in teaching, the characteristics functions of other forms of teaching are still incomparable.

                  🔍 Multimedia technology should not be overused

                Teacher should help the student gain the basic knowledge and language training at classes, improve their expression ability in English and basis communication.


        Problems Arising from Application for Multimedia Technology to English Teaching

                  🔍 Major means replaced by assisting one

                  Multimedia technology is an assisting instrument to achieve the project teaching effect. They are substitutes for effective teaching and learning.

                 🔍 Loss of speaking communication

                    It made lack of communication between teachers and students, replacement of teacher's voice by computer sound and student have few chances for communicate.

                  🔍 The restriction of Students' thinking potential 

                    Cultivation of students' thinking capacity should be the major objective in teaching and using of multimedia.

                  🔍 Abstract thinking replaced by imaginable thinking

                    Multimedia technology makes content easier, and the imagination in students' mind was merely showed on the screen, their thinking would waste away.