THE USE OF MULTIMEDIA IN ENGLISH TEACHING
student’s desire for knowledge. It can expand text-related materials. The use of multimedia technologies can
make students notice a clear knowledge and a new expansion by huge information capacity which shows by all
kinds of media.
Problems
Multimedia breaks the original traditional model—“blackboard + chalk” model for us to create new
modernized teaching methods to overcome the drawbacks of traditional teaching. It changes the dry learning
content into the vivid, interesting, visual, audible, and dynamic content. However, teaching English with
multi-media has many problems.
Confusion. Some English classes are totally dependent on multi-media, ignoring the role of teachers. Some
teachers enter the teaching content into the computer courseware, making the computer courseware as the role of
textbooks absolutely in the classroom teaching. What is worse, some teachers have directly brought a CD-ROM
courseware for their lessons, or copy other people’s courseware overall. It would only demonstrate the results of
other people, 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. But now the
teachers use the multi-media presentation to replace the guidance of teachers completely. Some teachers show the
teaching materials as many as possible in order to attract the students’ interest and make the class vivid. But it was
hard for some students to grasp these materials in such a short time. English teachers may bear this proverb in
their minds while preparing the lesson: more haste, less speed. Students only pay attention to appreciating the
picture, and do not pay attention to what they should really master in the classroom. Students receive a lot via
watching in class, without impression and consolidation from the presentation by multimedia.
Lack of special skills. There are many multimedia teachers who just have half-baked knowledge. It is a
challenge for teachers to use multimedia equipments sometimes. The preparation and workload of teachers
increase virtually. And multimedia teaching requires teachers with multimedia computer operation experience.
Owing to traditional educational system, many teachers are not good at computers. There are problems
unexpected happening in the observation classes. Because of lack of proficient operation of multimedia, some
teachers waste certain time in operation the computer, 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. The advantage of multimedia technology, unfortunately, result in some teachers’
dependence on it. In class they fail to show enthusiasm and creation. In some sense, they turn the multimedia
classroom into a show stage and what they act in class is nothing but a new generation of button-pusher.
Undoubtedly, the lack of creation and enthusiasm makes no sense of multimedia-based teaching. Multimedia it self
is not liable for the form and development of teacher’s routine work in the multimedia teaching. 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. The students under such traditional teaching method are still passive
and have no chance to have content thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking of the teachers’ lecture. We
should remember in a multimedia classroom environment the educational focus is on learning and instructiona
THE USE OF MULTIMEDIA IN ENGLISH TEACHINGstudent’s desire for knowledge. It can expand text-related materials. The use of multimedia technologies can make students notice a clear knowledge and a new expansion by huge information capacity which shows by all kinds of media.Problems Multimedia breaks the original traditional model—“blackboard + chalk” model for us to create new modernized teaching methods to overcome the drawbacks of traditional teaching. It changes the dry learning content into the vivid, interesting, visual, audible, and dynamic content. However, teaching English with multi-media has many problems. Confusion. Some English classes are totally dependent on multi-media, ignoring the role of teachers. Some teachers enter the teaching content into the computer courseware, making the computer courseware as the role of textbooks absolutely in the classroom teaching. What is worse, some teachers have directly brought a CD-ROM courseware for their lessons, or copy other people’s courseware overall. It would only demonstrate the results of other people, 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. But now the teachers use the multi-media presentation to replace the guidance of teachers completely. Some teachers show the teaching materials as many as possible in order to attract the students’ interest and make the class vivid. But it was hard for some students to grasp these materials in such a short time. English teachers may bear this proverb in their minds while preparing the lesson: more haste, less speed. Students only pay attention to appreciating the picture, and do not pay attention to what they should really master in the classroom. Students receive a lot via watching in class, without impression and consolidation from the presentation by multimedia. Lack of special skills. There are many multimedia teachers who just have half-baked knowledge. It is a challenge for teachers to use multimedia equipments sometimes. The preparation and workload of teachers increase virtually. And multimedia teaching requires teachers with multimedia computer operation experience. Owing to traditional educational system, many teachers are not good at computers. There are problems unexpected happening in the observation classes. Because of lack of proficient operation of multimedia, some teachers waste certain time in operation the computer, 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. The advantage of multimedia technology, unfortunately, result in some teachers’ dependence on it. In class they fail to show enthusiasm and creation. In some sense, they turn the multimedia classroom into a show stage and what they act in class is nothing but a new generation of button-pusher. Undoubtedly, the lack of creation and enthusiasm makes no sense of multimedia-based teaching. Multimedia it self is not liable for the form and development of teacher’s routine work in the multimedia teaching. 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. The students under such traditional teaching method are still passive and have no chance to have content thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking of the teachers’ lecture. We should remember in a multimedia classroom environment the educational focus is on learning and instructiona
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