The Application Of The Multimedia To English Reading Teaching In Vocational School

English is one of the world common languages; it is an important toolfor international communication. English is a public compulsory basic coursefor students of secondary vocational schools. Reading is an important process,which plays a very important role in students’ English learning. Therefore, theteaching of reading is also very important. However, in English teaching ofvocational schools, reading is always the weak link in the vocational schoolEnglish teaching; the main reason is that most students basis English is verypoor. They have no interest in learning English and their ways of learning areimproper. What s more, most teachers teaching methods are generally singleand relatively backward. Students can not actively participate in the classroomactivities, resulting in inefficient reading teaching. Then the teaching effect isnot obvious enough. As a result, the students’ reading ability is very poor,which can seriously affect their comprehensive ability of using language. Thetraditional teaching of English reading in vocational school is ateacher-centered teaching mode and students in the classroom are passiveaudiences. As time goes by, the traditional teaching methods cannot fullyarouse students enthusiasm, initiative and creativity. It is difficult to stimulatestudents’ interest in learning, which leading the efficiency of reading class tobe reduced greatly. In English reading teaching, using the modern teachingmedia effectively can represent the real situations, make classroom formsflexible and diverse, rich and colorful, arouse the students’ multi sensorylearning, enable students to obtain knowledge and increase the channelsof information. The multimedia teaching creates a good learning environmentfor students, and cultivates students’ interest in learning, arouse student’sinitiative, enthusiasm and desire for knowledge greatly. It has playeda positive role in inspiring the students observation ability and practice abilityand improving teaching effect and teaching efficiency.In this paper, combining with the characteristics of vocational schoolEnglish subject, we discuss the applications of multimedia in English readingteaching in vocational schools, hoping to solve some problems in teaching ofvocational English reading at the present stage and to improve the students’reading ability and improve students’ ability of using the language.