Use of Technology in English Language Teaching
💻Analysis on Necessity of Application of Multimedia Technology to English
To Cultivate Students’ Interest in Study
Multimedia technology offers a sense
of reality and functions which greatly cultivates student’s interest and motivation
in study and their involvement in class activities.
To Promote Students’ Communication Capacity
Traditional teaching has hampered students’ capacity in learning language. The multimedia technology seeks integration of teaching and learning for inspiring students’ positive thinking and communication skills in social practice.
To Widen Students’ Knowledge to Gain an
Insightful Understanding to Western Culture
Students can improve their skills and
an Insightful Understanding to Western Culture easily through multimedia which
they use in their daily routine.
To Improve Teaching Effect
Multimedia technology
play a big role on changing the method that teacher are not the center anymore
and make the teaching better by using media to have individualized
speaking communication.
To Improve Interaction Between Teacher and
Student
The teacher has a role as a
facilitator for training and improving students' ability to listen and speak,
and to develop their communicative competence.
Creates a Context for Language teaching
Multimedia teaching 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 Course Content
Multimedia teaching is also flexible. the context can be created not only in the classroom, but also after class. Multimedia language teaching can also create a multimedia language environment for the purpose of conducting language teaching.
💻Analysis on Problems Arising from Application for Multimedia Technology to English Teaching
Multimedia Technology helps a lot in
teaching, by the way, there still have many problems in practical teaching such as;
Major Means Replaced by the
Assisting One
In class, the teacher and students
only focus on the screen while teaching and teachers spend the whole thing on
multimedia, this can makes teachers turn into slaves of multimedia and cannot
play their in teaching.
Loss of Speaking Communication
Students have few chances for speaking
communication from replacement of teachers’ voice by computer sound, teachers’ analysis
by visual image and English class turns to course ware show.
The restriction of Students’
Thinking Potential
The courseware lacks real-time effect
and cannot give feedback and also neglects instruction in students‘ thinking,
inspiring their paths of thinking, strengthening their capacity contemplating
and solving problems.
Abstract Thinking Replaced by
Imaginable Thinking
The multimedia technology makes content
easier and it can clarify the emphasis in teaching. While if the image and in
students’ mind were merely showed on the screen, their abstract thinking would
be restricted and logical thinking would waste away.
💻Suggestions and Strategies to the Existing Problems
In practical teaching. It is improper
to duplicate the textual material simply to the screen so that the teacher’s the position is ignored in order to ensure the function of, multimedia in teaching.
It should be noted that::
The Beauty of Courseware Is not
the Sole Pursuit
During multimedia assisting teaching, teachers still play the leading role that their position could never be replaced by the computer. For instance, the introduction to each lesson and speaking communication are good way to improve students’ listening and speaking which the computer cannot fulfill.
The Computer Screen can’t
Substitute the Blackboard
Traditional writing on the blackboard
is concise and teachers can make adjustments and amendments which in practice,
they need to enrich the content on the blackboard with emerging new questions
raised by the students.
Power Point cannot Take the Place
of Student’s Thinking and Practices
Displaying of the content of texts in
the PPT courseware cannot take the place of students’ thinking or English
communication in simulated circumstances.
Traditional Teaching Instruments
and Devices should not be Overlooked
Teachers are supposed
to choose appropriate media based on requirements of teaching and integrate
multimedia instrument with traditional one and fully perform teaching rather
than merely in pursuit of trendy method.
Multimedia
Technology should not be Overused
Some teachers may
possess the improper concept that they would totally apply multimedia
technology in their teaching. This will make students focus at wrong purpose of
studying.
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