A Study on the Application of Multimedia in English Teaching in Middle School.doc

Abstract
Multimedia, an advanced media which consists of sound, pictures and animation, is being applied to English teaching and learning by more and more teachers and students in middle school. Using multimedia in teaching and learning has many benefits. But in usual contact with teachers and students of middle school, it is found that they have some viewpoints about multimedia teaching, so there is much value and meaning to multimedia application in English teaching in middle school.
The purposes of the thesis are the present situation and the main problems of multimedia application in English teaching in middle school, and then find out solve methods.
The research questions: 1) What are the teacher’s and student’s viewpoints of English Teaching with multimedia? 2) What is (are) the problem(s) students run into while teachers are conducting English teaching with multimedia? 3) What are the best methods to resolve the existing problems?
This research, through questionnaire survey, investigated some randomly chosen teachers and students of Chang Ji middle school and chooses the Grade Two students. Through survey and analysis, it is found that the main problems existing in multimedia teaching of English are as follows: (1) Students can not take notes effectively because of the high speed of courseware. (2) Multimedia teaching negatively reduces the opportunities of emotional exchange between teachers and students because of the change from munication to man-munication in classroom. (3) Multimedia courseware often serves as a platform for gathering materials and in fact es an electronic version of the traditional spoon-feeding education. Thus, many students e the passive recipients of information in class. (4) Multimedia teaching is not conducive to the training of students’ spoken English to a certain extent.
In response to these issues, under the guidance of the theory of Constructivism and Humanism, explored the methods and measures in order to deal with