多媒体在英语教学中的应用(1)(2)
2017-08-08 01:33
导读：2.1 What is multimedia? Then, what is multimedia? According to the webpage Webopedia (), multimedia is "the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way
2.1 What is multimedia?
Then, what is multimedia? According to the webpage Webopedia (), multimedia is "the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way."[1] It is based on computers and the Internet. When a student receives new information through multimedia, he/she can use his/her eyes, ears, mouth, hands ect., which would make the student get twice the result with half the effort at the same time. Treicher, an experimental psychologist, has ever done two famous psychological experiments: one is about the channels of human's getting information. That is, how human beings get information. By a large number of experiments, he has proved that of the information human beings received, 83% is by sight sense, 11% by hearing sense, and 94% by combining listening with seeing. Besides, 3.5% is by smell sense, 1.5% by touch sense, and 1% by taste sense. The other experiment is about maintaining information. In other words, how much Man will store the received information. The result is as follows: generally speaking, Man can remember 10% of what he/she just read, 20% of what he/she heard, 30% of what he/she saw, 50% of what he/she saw and heard. And if he/she was talking with others, he/she would remember 70% of what he himself/she herself just said. [2] Another investigation shows the same result. According to the result of it that is provided by France, a student can only maintain 15% of all the given information only by hearing sense and 25% only by sight sense. But if by combining hearing with seeing, the percentage will increase to 64%. [3] Thus it can be seen that multimedia is clearly superior to traditional English teaching and if it is used in English teaching, the efficiency of teaching and learning will be greatly raised.
2.2 The definition of traditional English teaching mode and its characters
Then, what is traditional English teaching mode? The traditional English teaching mode is called "cramming method of teaching". That is, teachers treat students like ducks, "force-feeding" them with boring grammar points and "important" phrases and sentences and paying no attention to the fact whether they understand them or not. So most of the students who are learning English feel that English is a trouble and a burden so that they dislike and even fear and hate it.
（科教范文网http://fw.ΝsΕΑc.com编辑） Traditional English teaching mode is of the following characters:
Firstly, teacher-centeredness. In traditional English teaching mode, the teacher is at the center of the class, regarded as the authority, the director of the learning process and the model for students to follow. The primary role of the teacher is thought to spoonfeed knowledge, to teach language skills and to answer questions for the learners, that is, "to transmit the target language". [4]
Secondly, product-oriented evaluation. The traditional evaluation system is based on product, to be more exact, on the students' marks. The vital, even the only criterion to judge the teacher and the students is what the students "achieve", not how the students "achieve" it. In other words, the criterion is product-oriented, not process-oriented.
