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NECESSITY OF APPLICATION OF MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY TO
ENGLISH TEACHING
Aslihan Arikan
Teacher of English, Ankara University
Abstract:
The integration of multimedia technology into English language teaching (ELT)
has revolutionized traditional educational methods, offering a dynamic and engaging approach to
learning. Unlike conventional teaching, which often limits students' comprehension and
communication skills, multimedia tools leverage audio, visual, and animated effects to create an
immersive learning environment that transcends time and space constraints. This technology
fosters students' interest, motivation, and active participation in class activities while enhancing
their ability to understand language structure, meaning, and function. By incorporating
interactive courseware, multimedia teaching promotes critical thinking, communication skills,
and cultural awareness, enabling students to gain insights into Western culture through authentic
materials and real-life contexts.
Key words
: communication, visual, technology, audio, motivation, animation
Nowadays, the stereotyped traditional teaching methods and environment are unpopular
while multimedia technology featuring audio, visual animation effects naturally and humanely
makes us more access to information besides, with such characteristics as abundant-information
and crossing time and space, multimedia technology offers a sense of reality and functions very
well, which greatly cultivates students’ interest and motivation in study and their involvement in
class activities. To Promote Students’ Communication Capacity: Traditional teaching has
hampered students’ capacity to comprehend certain language and also understanding to structure,
meaning and function of the language, and makes the students passive recipients of knowledge,
So, it is hard to achieve the target of communication. With teachers’ instructions leading
students’ thought patterns and motivating students’ emotions, the multimedia technology seeks
integration of teaching and learning and provides the students greater incentives, The PPT
courseware activate students’ thinking; the visual and vivid courseware rand help them to
transforms English learning into capacity cultivation. And such in-class activities as group
discussion, subject discussion, and debates can also offer more opportunities for communication
among students and between teachers and students. So multimedia technology teaching has
uniquely inspired students’ positive thinking and communication skills in social practice [4,
286p.].
To Widen Students’ Knowledge to Gain an Insightful Understanding to Western Culture:
The multimedia courseware can offer the students abundant information; more plentiful than
textbooks, and help them to get of displays vivid cultural background, rich content and true-to-
life language materials, which are much natural and closer to life. Not only could learners
improve their listening ability, but also learn the western culture. Grasping information through
various channels can equip; the students with knowledge and bring about information-sharing
among students 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. Due to large classes it is difficult for the students to have speaking communication.
The utilization of multi-media sound lab materializes the individualized and co-operative
teaching. The traditional teaching model mainly emphasized on teachers’ instruction, and the
information provided is limited due to traditional classes. On the contrary, multimedia
technology goes beyond time and space, creates more vivid, visual, authentic environment for
English learning, stimulates students’ initiatives and economizes class time meanwhile increases
class information. To Improve Interaction Between Teacher and Student: Multimedia teaching
stresses the role of students, and enhances the importance of “interaction” between teachers and
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students. A major feature of multimedia teaching is to train and improve students’ ability to
listen and speak, and to develop their communicative competence, during this process, the
teacher’s role as a facilitator is particularly prominent. 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. In
this way, teachers in the classroom no longer blindly input information and force students to
receive it in a passive way.
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. Multimedia has its own features such as visibility and liveliness.
During the process of multimedia English teaching, sounds and pictures can be set together,
which enhances the initiative of both teachers and students, when using multimedia software,
teachers can use pictures and images to enrich the content of classes, and also imagine different
contexts in the process of producing teaching courseware, Students in the class can use
multimedia to understand the class in a clear way. Through the whole interactive process, it is
apparent that using multimedia in ELT is effective in nurturing students’ interest in learning
English, as well as enhancing teachers’’ interest in English teaching. As through Multimedia and
network technology we can offer students not only rich, sources of authentic learning materials,
but also an attractive and a friendly interface, vivid pictures and pleasant sounds, which to a
large extent overcomes the lack of authentic language environment and arouses students’ interest
in learning English. To Provide Flexibility to Course Content: In addition, multimedia teaching
is also flexible. It is obvious that 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. English teaching itself must focus on the guidance
of teachers and be student-centered, which we believe is one of the principles for language
teaching. Students are bound to have some problems in classroom teaching, which can be
addressed under the guidance of teachers. In such circumstances, students can use the new
technology to their advantage, such as manipulating the network to contact teachers, and
receiving answers by email.
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