From reading “The Use of Multimedia in
English Teaching” I can summarize the knowledge as follow:
👉 The definition of multimedia 👈
Multimedia
is the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound
in an integrated way.
❤️ Components of Multimedia ❤️
⇒ Text: fundamental element in all multimedia
applications.
⇒ Graphics: refer to images and pictures.
⇒ Animation: 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: speech, music, or any other sound that is
stored and produced by computers.
⇒ Video: the visible part of a television transmission
and broadcasts visual images of stationary or moving objects.
💙 The Setting of Multimedia Classroom 💙
1. Multimedia personal computer
2. VCD/DVD player
3. Amplifier and Hi-Fi acoustic system
4. Overhead/slide projector
5. Screen/curtain
6. Projecting apparatus
7. The Internet access
8. Cassette tape recorder
9. Camera recorder
💚 The necessity of Multimedia in English
Teaching 💚
⇒ The necessity of Development of Modern
Educational Technology
⇒ The needs of quality education
⇒ The needs of students’ cognitive mental
💛 The Multimedia Teaching 💛
💟 Advantages 💟
- Arousing the students’ interest.
- Improving students’ self-learning ability.
- Improving students’ innovative ability.
- Cultivating students’ communication skills.
- Increasing classroom capacity.
💢 Problems 💢
- Confusion.
- Performance on behalf of the lead.
- Lack of special skills.
- Over-use of multimedia.
- Lack of interaction between teachers and
students.
💜 Strategies for Using Multimedia 💜
⇒ Combining modern teaching methods with
traditional teaching methods.
⇒ Viewing multimedia as the assistance to teaching.
⇒ Building the ideal relationship between teachers
and students.
⇒ Strengthening teacher training.
❤️ The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted
Teaching ❤️
1. Scientific principles
2. Subsidiary principles
3. Interactivity principles
4. Combination principles
