On The Application And The Results Of Multimedia-Computer In Teaching Business English Writing In Secondary Technical Schools

The Business English Letter Writing course in Secondary Technical Schools has always been one of the difficulties in Business English teaching. Though both teachers and students have spent much time, made great efforts, the effects are far from being satisfactory. When it comes to Business English writing, many students are always puzzled by: 1) having no way of doing it, because many students are not familiar with the writing form of daily Commercial English; 2) what students have written makes those who are engaged in business activities baffled and they scarcely understand what they mean. A lot of students who major in Business English are unexpectedly unable to write a resume or an application letter in English upon their graduation. Such students would be defeated in the fierce job-hunting competition. As far as 1 am concerned, the phenomenon occurs because of the defective method and scarce knowledge of the traditional Business English Writing teaching. With the wide applications of multimedia in modern education, more and more educators are trying to apply modern education skills to English teaching to improve the teaching results. But such researches are always concentrated on listening, speaking, reading of the College and Basic English while the Business English Writing is seldom involved.With reference to the findings of the relative experts' research at home and abroad, the writer of this paper introduces the multimedia computer into Business English Writing as an auxiliary teaching method. The application results are examined by using the methods of group experiments, questionnaires, examinations, and etc. The analysis of questionnaires, end-of-term examination papers and teacher-and-student forum and the checks conducted by Human Resources Department of relative enterprises show that the multimedia computer applied in Business English Writing teaching can remedy the deficiency of the traditional teaching methods, and especially can create better studying atmosphere among students during the process of Business English Writing teaching. On the other hand, because students in secondary vocational schools are too young in age, and their foundation in English is relatively bad, computer-assisted teaching cannot make significant results in enlarging the Business English vocabulary and deepening impression of new words and phrases. And what's more, because the English teachers are unable to get ride of all the technical failures appearing during courses, the class activities have been broken off sometimes. The random investigation shows that the English teachers' abilities of using multimedia computer should be further improved.Therefore, the author suggests that in secondary vocational Commercial English Writing teaching, the teaching approach with multimedia computer can be adopted on the premise of not totally giving up traditional classroom instruction, that is, two methods should complement each other. Besides, in order to improve the English teachers' abilities to obtain modern educational skills, the educational leaders should pay much attention to strengthening the training of secondary vocational English teachers' abilities to use multimedia computer. Only in this way can they better meet the needs of English teaching under the new circumstances.