Applying Innovative Spirit to Multimedia Foreign Language Teaching
Zhuo Zhu
Abstract
It has become many English educators’ common view as well as
spontaneous action to implement multimedia-assisted foreign language
teaching. It is the advanced media technology that has changed the
former teaching pattern. However, will such a teaching pattern achieve
success? Under new circumstances, multimedia foreign language teaching
seems a challenge for teachers. Only with innovative educational ideas,
innovative implementation of new technologies and methods will the
teaching efficiency be improved and the teaching level be guaranteed.
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Introduction
In the recent
years, self learning, that is, foreign language teaching practice centered on
learners, With the development of science and technology, multimedia technology
is increasingly used in teaching, so is it in English teaching. In addition,
students are advised to learn English with the help of the computer, which
takes up 30%-50% of the total credit for the English course. This significant
reform is in tune with the teaching idea centered on the
learner, for which the
application of the multimedia technology offers advanced teaching methods. In
practice, the multimedia technology still suffers from some drawbacks in
itself. As a result, there is an imbalance between high input and low output in
some schools. She said that whether multimedia English teaching can achieve
success depends on whether a teacher has innovative spirit, owns innovative
education ideas and employs teaching methods and means creatively.
Multimedia Teaching and
the Innovation of Educational Ideas.
In multimedia
teaching, the pattern including the teacher, students, the computer and
courseware is employed which is guided by Constructivism. In this way, students
will be active achievers and architects instead of passive recipients. As a vital branch of Cognitive Learning
Theory. Otherwise the advantages of multimedia teaching cannot be exerted with
only the combination of blackboard and chalk converted into that of technology
and screen. As a result, foreign language teachers are expected to convert
their traditional ideas, to update their concepts and to accomplish the
conversion in their role. Accordingly, teachers should employ courseware to
conduct heuristic education while avoiding the cramming method preferred in
traditional class, to properly manage students’ class learning, to change the
former man-machine communication into teacher-student communication and
student-student communication and to penetrate the heuristic method and the
open method into the teaching process in order to improve students’ involvement
and enthusiasm.
Exerting the Advantages of
Multimedia Teaching and Exploring New Patterns of Language Teaching.
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Positive Effects of Multimedia on
Foreign Language Teaching
First, PPT courseware
frequently used in multimedia teaching has increased the information volume in
teaching
Second,
by integrating sound, light, electricity, image and color into a whole,
multimedia provides a multi-level teaching and learning pattern for both
teachers and students.
Third, the development in
multimedia has caused great changes in foreign language teaching content.
Fourth, the multi-dimensional
multimedia information helps to cultivate students’ associative thinking.
Fifth, multimedia teaching
provides a platform for the communication between teachers and students as well
as students and students.
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Problems and Solutions Related to
Multimedia Teaching
Some errors and
misunderstandings may occur in teaching practice, which are mainly manifested
in the following aspects: first, assisting the traditional teaching pattern
where the teacher takes the dominance in conveying knowledge with modern
information technology. Second, excessive use of multimedia effects, the
following methods can be resorted to solve the above problems:
First, combine
course type with multimedia.
Second, combine
different teaching stages with multimedia.
Third, combine
teaching and learning.
Fourth, combine
class teaching and extracurricular instruction.
Conclusion
Multimedia will
bring about more positive changes to foreign language teaching and therefore
greater achievements will be made in our foreign language teaching.
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