1. Introduction
In the recent years, people have become increasingly aware of the importance of learners themselves for the final result of learning. Therefore, self learning, that is, foreign language teaching practice centered on learners, has become a hot topic in current foreign language teaching. 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.
2. Multimedia Teaching and the Innovation of Educational Ideas
Teachers are supposed to start from the general teaching aims to reasonably employ multimedia, to arrange teaching content and class activities creatively and scientifically, to create an atmosphere for students’ active learning, hence making multimedia an organic part in teaching as well as a powerful tool to improve teaching and satisfying teaching demands to the largest degree. 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.
3. Exerting the Advantages of Multimedia Teaching and Exploring New Patterns of Language Teaching 3.1 Positive Effects of Multimedia on Foreign Language Teaching
The first, PPT courseware frequently used in multimedia teaching has increased the information volume in teaching as well as saved a large amount of time otherwise spent in writing on the blackboard and improved class efficiency.
The second, The interactive learning environment it provides enables the learner to acquire feedback timely, to learn about their learning result, to adjust their learning steps, pace and difficulty accordingly; the favorable language environment it offers give students an access to pure pronunciations and intonations as well as dialogues, which is of great help for students’ language understanding, accumulation and imitation.
The third, they can compose some existing teaching materials into a variety of audio-visual materials to increase class interest as well as students’ involvement.
The fourth, the multi-dimensional multimedia information helps to cultivate students’ associative thinking. Human thoughts are bouncing and associative. Sound, image, quality feeling and number will help people with their thinking and memory.
The fifth, multimedia teaching provides a platform for the communication between teachers and students as well as students and students. Teachers may solve students’ questions in class or go on with their communication after class through online discussion or e-mail.
3.2 Problems and Solutions Related to Multimedia Teaching
The first, combine course type with multimedia.
The second, combine different teaching stages with multimedia.
The third, combine teaching and learning.
The fourth, combine class teaching and extracurricular instruction.
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