💥“Use of
Technology in English Language Teaching and Learning”: An Analysis.💥
📢 Analysis on Necessity of Application of
Multimedia Technology to English Teaching
👉 To Cultivate Students’ Interest in Study
Multimedia technology makes us more access
to information.
👉 To Promote Students’ Communication
Capacity
The multimedia technology seeks
integration of teaching and learning and provides the students greater
incentives, The PPT courseware activate students’ thinking.
👉 To Widen Students’ Knowledge to
Gain an Insightful Understanding to Western Culture.
The multimedia courseware help students
to get of displays vivid cultural background, rich content and true-to-life
language materials, which are much natural and closer to life and make them
actively participate in class discussion and communication.
👉 To Improve Teaching Effect
Multimedia teachings enrich teaching
content and make the best of class time and break the “teacher-centered”
teaching pattern and fundamentally improve class efficiency for English
learning, stimulates students’ initiatives and economizes class time meanwhile
increases class information.
👉 To Improve Interaction Between
Teacher and Student
Using multimedia in context creation
creates a good platform for the exchange between teachers and students, while
at the same time providing a language environment that improves on the
traditional classroom teaching model.
👉 Creates a Context for Language
teaching
This method makes the class lively and
interesting, as well as optimizing the organization of the class.
👉 To Provide Flexibility to Course
Content:
Students can use the new technology to
their advantage, such as manipulating the network to contact teachers, and
receiving answers by email.
📢 Analysis on Problems Arising from Application for Multimedia Technology to
English Teaching
👉 Major Means Replaced by the
Assisting One
Application of multimedia technology is
and assisting instrument to achieve the projected teaching effect, while if
totally dependent on, multimedia devices during teaching, the teachers may be
turned into slaves to the multimedia and cannot play the leading role in
teaching. It is observed in practice that a lot of teachers are active in
multimedia technology application but not proficient enough to handle it
confidently.
👉 Loss of Speaking Communication
It also results in lack of
communication between teachers and students, replacement of teachers’ voice by
computer sound, and teachers’ analysis by visual image and students have’ few
chances for speaking communication. With the favorable atmosphere by the mutual
communication between teachers and students fading away, and sound and image of
multimedia affecting students’ initiative to think and speak, English class
turns to course ware show and students are made viewers rather than the
participants of class activities.
👉 The restriction of Students’
Thinking Potential
It should be noted that cultivation of
students’ thinking capacity should be the major objective in teaching and using
of multimedia technology and it should not take up the students’ time for
thinking, analyzing and exploring questions.
👉 Abstract Thinking Replaced by
Imaginable Thinking
To enhance the students’ abstract
thinking, the multimedia technology makes content easier, and with its unique
advantages, it can clarify the emphasis in teaching. While if the image and
imagination in students’ mind were merely showed on the screen, their abstract
thinking would be restricted and logical thinking would waste away. All in all,
the multimedia as an assisting instrument, cannot replace the dominant role of
teachers and it is part of a complete teaching process.
📢 Suggestions and Strategies to the Existing Problems
👉 The Beauty of Courseware Is not
the Sole Pursuit
It is proved through practice that
adequate application of multimedia technology to teaching can make
breakthroughs in class teaching. That is to say, during multimedia assisting
teaching, teachers still play the leading role that their position could never
be replaced by the computer.
👉 The Computer Screen can’t
Substitute the Blackboard
Traditional writing on blackboard is
concise and teachers can make adjustment and amendment to it if necessary.
Furthermore, experienced teachers know well that a perfect courseware is an
ideal project in mind, and that in practice, 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 Practices
A problem remains that displaying of
the content of texts in the PPT courseware cannot take the place of students’
thinking or English communication in simulated circumstance, when working on
and utilizing the courseware, we need to encourage the students to use their
own mind and speak more, actively join in class practice.
👉 Traditional Teaching
Instruments and Devices should not be Overlooked
Teachers are supposed to choose
appropriate media and instrument based on the requirements of teaching and
integrate multimedia instrument with traditional one and fully perform their
merits, rather than merely in pursuit of trendy method.
👉 Multimedia Technology should
not be Overused
The more unconscious attention the
students pay. The more interference of teaching information during
transmission, the less the students take from the language materials. It is
impossible to effectively train the students’ language expression in class
time. It is clear that in spite of advantages of application of multimedia
technology, it assists in teaching. During practical teaching, it is part of a
complete teaching procedure. In practice, if multimedia technology would be
properly implemented in English teaching, the students could make full use of
English speaking and listening materials and develop their overall capacities,
which is the objective for us to introduce multimedia technology to modern
teaching.
