💻📱Multimedia the use of computers to present text, graphics,video,animation,and sound in an interested way.🎞🎥📺📡
Components of Multimedia
🚩Text : It’s fundamental element in all multimedia applications.
🚩Graphics : It refers to image and pictures.
🚩Animation : Is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.
🚩Sound : It is speech , music, or any other sound that is stored and produced by computers.
🚩Video : It is visible part of a television transmission and broadcasts visual images of stationary or moving objects.
✍🏻The Necessity of multimedia in English teaching 👩🏼🏫
Improving students’ self-learning ability. The purpose of teaching in the classroom is not only to impart knowledge to students. The most important thing is teaching students how to learn and making students change from “want me to study” to “I want to learn” in thinking, from passive learning to active learning. Therefore, students are free from the passive learning environment, take initiative at learning, and develop their own self-learning good habits gradually. It also can enable students to tap into a good way of learning English independently, keep the cultivation of motivation and interest in learning English so as to make students really love the English, really free from the passive learning environment in English learning .The use of multimedia will be conducive to transition for students from the traditional passive learning to active state for independent study. For example, teachers can select the appropriate E-work arrangements to the students from the multimedia courseware after class, so that they can complete the relevant extra-curricular work, and send message to the teacher through their own e-mails, the teacher via electronic E-mail marking responses to student. In this way, students can not only see their learning outcomes in the shortest period of time, but also continue stimulating interest in their own learning through the multimedia network.
🐬The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted Teaching🐳
🔸1) Scientific principles. Namely, courseware design cannot appear any errors;
🔹2) Subsidiary principle. We must always adhere to: Although multi-media teaching has many advantages, it is only a supplementary means, and does not substitute for the role of people;
🔺3) Interactivity principle. More interactivity between teachers and students, students and multimedia, more effective results we will have;
🔸4) Combination principle. Combine the advantages of modern teaching and the traditional teaching organically.
👩🏼💻Conclusion 🐹
In the last several years, the application of multimedia technology in English teaching has become a trend in china, which is especially beneficial to language learning. It is urgent that education needs to be modernized in rapidly society and multimedia is an important aspect in modern education. In order to suit for this kind of need, course reformation and multimedia teaching are sped up in every country, in which it is extremely needed to turn traditional teaching into modern teaching in English teaching. In the future, multimedia technology is likely to be a necessity not only for English teaching but also for teaching for many other subjects. As a device which stimulates and at the same time partners the user’s processes of thinking, reasoning, and communicating, the multimedia also has the potential to change these processes. Surely, neither should the practitioners be blindly led by the technological innovation, nor should they deny the function of multimedia in language teaching.
