Applying Multimedia To Improve Junior Middle School Students' Learning Interest In Classroom

In the Age of Information, computers are playing more and more outstanding roles in people's life. As the technology of the Multimedia goes deeper, teaching with the aid of the Multimedia has become a new tendency in the circles of education. The Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has experienced a quite long history of development, and accompanied by the Multimedia and the Internet, it is ready to step into a brand-new stage. Language learning is different from the learning of other subjects, for it cares much about a sound and beneficial language environment. Due to the limitations of language classroom teaching, the extracurricular learning of English will probably become an optimal means for language learners in China to launch their expandable study. The Multimedia has been moving into the classroom, but in the field of extracurricular learning, it shows more of greatness in its advantages, more and more students will be interested in it.Thanks to the Multimedia, with the features of its convenience, updatedness and super capacity, students are facilitated to improve their learning state effectively—from the attitude and awareness of learning a foreign language, to the practical language communications.With the rapid changes brought about by globalization and technological development, new changes have taken place in the English teaching profession. The application of multimedia in foreign language learning is one of the most striking changes. The rapid development of educational technology promotes the integration of educational technology into teaching and learning.How to teach foreign language effectively with multimedia? How to improve students'learning interest? This problem has attracted a great deal of attention of researchers and language teachers, but multimedia foreign language teaching and learning has received relatively a little of attention. This thesis assumes that teachers and scholars recognize the importance of multimedia resources; they can apply multimedia resources to improve junior middle school students'learning interest in classroom.A major part in this thesis is applying Mayer's cognitive theory of multimedia learning theory to explaining multimedia foreign language learning. The process of multimedia learning can be viewed as information acquisition or as knowledge construction. The possible learning outcomes are no learning (as indicated by poor retention and poor transfer performance), rote learning (as indicated by good retention and poor retention performance), and meaningful learning (as indicated by good retention and transfer performance). Meaningful learning outcomes depend on the cognitive activity of the learner during learning rather than learner's behavioral activity during learning.Multimedia resources that are designed in light of how the human mind works are more likely to lead to meaning learning than those that are not. A cognitive theory of multimedia learning assumes that the human information processing system includes dual channels for visual/pictorial and auditory/verbal processing, that each channel has limited capacity for processing, and that active learning entails carrying out a coordinated set of cognitive processes during learning. The five steps in multimedia learning are selecting relevant words from the present text or narration, selecting relevant images from the presented illustrations, organizing the selected words into a coherent visual verbal representation, organizing the selected images into a coherent visual presentation, and integrating the visual and verbal presentations and prior knowledge. The processing of pictures occurs mainly in the visual/pictorial channel and the processing of spoken words occurs mainly in the auditory/verbal channel, but the processing of printed words takes place initially in the visual/pictorial channel and then moves to the auditory/verbal channel.It is of significance to investigate the impact of multimedia on the learning effects of junior middle school students. The research is designed to explore the relationship between multimedia-aided English teaching and students'learning interest in junior middle school English classroom. The questionnaires and interview are conducted to collect the data. The research proves that the application of multimedia in junior middle school classrooms teaching can improve students'learning interest and effect.