Multimedia uses computers to integrate text, graphics, video, animation, and sound. It is used for English teaching in classrooms with personal computers, video players, amplifiers, projectors, and screens connected to the internet. Multimedia in English teaching is necessary for modern educational technology development, engaging students' cognitive abilities, and providing a platform for quality education. It improves students' self-learning, innovation, and communication skills, but may distract students or make teachers over-reliant on the technology.

1. THE USE OF
MULTIMEDIA
IN ENGLISH
TEACHING
Multimedia is the use of computers to
present text, graphics, video, animation,
and sound in an integrated way.
Components
of Multimedia
Text
Graphics
Animation
Sound
Video
The Setting
of Multimedia
Classroom
Multimedia personal
computer
VCD/DVD player Amplifier and Hi-Fi
acoustic system
Overhead/slid
e projector
Screen/curtain The Internet access
The Necessity of Multimedia
in English Teaching
The Necessity of Development of
Modern Educational Technology
-The development of modern educational
technology is promote the development
of educational methods, means, thinking
and model.
The Needs of Students’ Cognitive
Mental
- The multimedia teaching system can fully
mobilize the students’ audio-visual and
other sensory organs, and thus get the
best of the cognitive effect.
The Needs of Quality Education
- Multimedia English teaching provides a
good educational platform and adds vigor
for quality education, enabling students to
change and update their thinking from the
traditional teaching, thereby enhancing
the quality of all aspects.
Advantage / Disadvantage
Advantage
- Improving students’
self-learning ability.
- Improving students’
innovative ability
- Cultivating students’
communication skills.
Disadvantage
- Students pay attention
appreciating the picture, and
do not pay attention to
studying.
- Teacher lack of enthusiasm
and creation and his or her
dependence on the multimedia
technology.
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