| Reading is an important channel to acquire knowledge and teaching reading is a chief way an4 an objective in English language teaching and language competence training. However, the traditional reading teaching stressed the process of helping students analyse words and sentences, which greatly impeded their communicative competence as it was a passive process. And the traditional teaching mode of English reading course has severely suppressed students' subjectivity, which results in students' poor reading performance. Therefore, an attempt is needed to innovate the teaching of English reading.The 21st century, is an.Information Age as well as a Knowledge Economy Age. The development of information society has presented existing English instruction with serious challenges. At the same time, modern education technology offers new chances for improving English instructional effects. Especially the rapid development and wild application of multimedia net technology has opened up a new field for multimedia assisted English teaching. And it is essential to combine the constructivism theory and modern information technology, which will make the teaching system more reasonable and effective. Based on this opinion, the dissertation mainly introduces the necessity ofthe integration of information technology and English teaching, it also discusses the important part that modern educational technology plays in English reading classroom teaching, explores the ways and effects of using the technology and puts forward some suggestions.The development and the use of multimedia net technology have brought the great transformation to the English teaching instrumentality and thinking, and to teaching system as well as the whole social education concept and educational mode. Research shows that by using the multimedia net in English reading teaching, Situation Language Teaching has been paid great attention to. It not only can arouse the enthusiasm of students in reading, strengthen the procedure of teaching, but also supply a real language learning situation for students. Since the multimedia net technology can be used to process teaching information, such as words, images, data, animation, as well as audio and video signal comprehensively, it has been more and more widely employed in classroom teaching and there is a even more prospect for it. During the course of Multimedia Net English Reading Teaching, the teacher can achieve the best teaching results by creating a ingeniously-made situation, combining the perceptual materials with the students' imagination, presenting a communication-knowledge teaching style based on language and situation, improving the students' ability of intercultural communication. In the multimedia net environment, the student will find himself an active learner, the center of academic activities, a participant in language communications and a sharer of source information. The teacher should be a communicator in education, a facilitator in students' independent study, and a developer of students' latent energy. Undoubtedly, the multimedia net brings great vitality to English reading teaching and learning.This dissertation also-states that special attention should be paid to application of multimedia net in English reading teaching, especially the harmonious relationship between the key factors of teaching - the teacher, the students, teaching materials and methods.This dissertation consists of five chapters:The first chapter serves as an introduction stating the concept and developing history of information technology. It also shows the essential of constructing a model ofthe reform of fundamental education by modern educational technology.Chapter Two talks about the nature of English course and the characteristics of English teaching and talents' quality. It sums up the significance of the integration of information technology and English teaching.Chapter Three is one of the man parts of this dissertation, it offers a historical retrospect of the nature of reading, as the curr... |