Modes Of Integrating Multimedia Technology Into CET

Postgraduate: Gan Lingling Supervisor: Professor Cheng JitangInfluenced by the traditional teaching modes, college English teaching (CET), which is considered as one of the fundamental course for non-English majors, has been confronted with certain limitations. Therefore, the revolutionizing breakthrough can not be made under the traditional English learning environment and the CET has been confronted with lots of realistic existing problems that the conventional teaching modes and approaches can not solve. The reforming of CET has become one of the highlights of the Ministry of Education in recent years and many efforts have been made to improve the quality and efficiency of CET. However, the results are not so satisfactory as expected.In recent years, in tune with the rapid development of the information age and the digital, audio-visual technology, multimedia technology and its application has also entered a new era of development in the people's life, especially in the academic field. According to some statistics, in the past few years, 70% to 80% of the published theses about educational technology on the international academic publications or symposiums are concerned with multimedia and thus the application of multimedia technology is now rapidly becoming the mainstream in the development of educational technology. In China, integrating multimedia technology into foreign language teaching has brought about a new revolution in FLT and has a far-reaching influence on the reforming and modernization of the education. Based on the related modern foreign language teaching and learning theories, multimedia technology has shown its vast advantages in assisting and facilitating CET. It not only provides richer and more authentic language learning environment and enables both teachers and students to have more access to the enormous English information and materials, but more importantly, it changes the modern teaching and learning theories fundamentally and makes it possible for English teaching developing in terms of modern teaching modes. With the guidance of foreign language teaching and learning theories and the application of multimedia technology, the exploring of the new modes of the major college English courses, such as intensive and extensive reading, listening and speaking, become possible. Moreover, some new college English learning modes, which based on multimedia technology, such as the individualized learning and cooperative learning modes for students' after-class English learning and reinforcement have become the effective modes.However, the hypothesis and analysis of the new modes of CET should be made with the consideration of the following factors, such as certain desired teaching objectives, the characteristics of the English course, students' cognitive and affective domain, teaching materials, students' English levels and their interests as well as the combination of traditional and modern approaches. Also, the new modes need further improvements during the field teaching and learning experiences. Since integrating multimedia technology into CET is still on the beginning stage, many problems may emerge during the teaching process, such as the appropriate use, designing and making of the multimedia courseware, the sharing of multimedia teaching and learning materials, the establishment and evaluation of the new modes and so forth and it will be undoubtedly undergoing a long process of self-development and improvement.By the detailed and careful investigation and analysis of the current situation of integrating multimedia technology into CET and with the guidance of foreign language theories, learning theories and the communication theories, the thesis is trying to conduct a series of new analysis of the major modes for CET including intensive and extensive reading course modes, listening and speaking modes, individualized learning and cooperative learning modes with the practical demonstration or case study of field teaching and some beneficial accumulations have been achiev...