Week 3 : 💻 The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching 📟

• The definition of Multimedia

           Multimedia is the use several media for instant, text, graphic, video, animation and sound in an integrated way in one computer.

• Advantages of Multimedia

            - Arousing the students interest : teachers should try their best to get students to become interest in one topic of knowledge point and make the students with a strong passion and enthusiasm to participate in teaching.

                - Improving student's self-learning ability. : 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.

                - Improving students' innovative ability.

                - Cultivating students' communication skills.

                - Increasing classroom capacity.

• Disadvantage of Multimedia

                - Performance on behalf of the lead : Teacher addict multimedia and use multimedia instead of them self. Moreover, students really pay attention to appreciating the pictures and do not pay attention to what they should really master in the classroom.

                - Lack of spatial skills : because of lack of proficient operation of multimedia, some teachers waste certain time in the operation the computer, the unskilled operation on computer would affect the instruction flow ,which in turn would de-motive students if it happend frequently in class.

               - Over-use of multimedia : if teachers act as only information given to the students that they have no chance to have content thinking, critical thinking and creative thinking of the teachers' lecture.

               - Lack of interaction between teachers and students : is no eye contact, ask and answer to each other.

• Strategies for using multimedia

               - Combining Modern Teaching Method with Traditional Teaching Methods.

               - Viewing Multimedia as the Assistance to Teaching.

               - Building the Ideal relationship between teachers and students.

               - Strengthening Teacher Training.