2015 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education

The Development of Multimedia in Foreign Linguistics Teaching for Higher

Education

Xuan Zhou
College of Foreign Language Education
Beihua University
Jilin, China
e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract—Multimedia technology is the most typical

application examples for the computer information
management system, which has been widely applied to the field
of foreign linguistics teaching. How to use multimedia tools,
allocate the multimedia technology and seek for benefit is one
of the measures which every education department has to take.
In this paper, t he application of CIMS in the foreign
linguistics teaching for higher education has been applied. The
results show that the teaching effectiveness has improved
significantly in foreign linguistics.

Keywords-Multimedia technology; Foreign linguistics;

Teaching effectiveness

I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1)
Linguistics is the main way of teaching, is on life-support
systems civic and moral education, the main channel for
education in patriotism and national education, as well as Figure 1. The multimedia workstation components in FIG
courses for students were dominant ethos and life education,
the shoulder of the young people thought Moral Construction II. MULTIMEDIA TEACHING MISUNDERSTANDING
daunting task. Linguistics classroom teaching quality will
directly affect the reliability of the students what they learn, Some teachers choose and use of teaching media to use
the impact of the Health Sciences outlook on life and values to use, in the form of guise, grandstanding, distracting,
and establish good moral character formation is related to ignoring the actual results, downplayed the classroom theme,
improving the overall quality of students. Therefore, the flooded center, confuse, improper levels of detail in the
optimization of classroom teaching foreign linguistics is to teaching process, not only contrary to the Note that the law,
fully implement the Party's education policy, give full play to but also contrary to the original intention of the use of
the main channel of Linguistics of the teaching function of instructional media and intention. Instead, the media became
the objective requirements. a teacher teaching the use of modern media to show their
Features a large foreign-linguistics is that it has a distinct virtuosity of "secondary" means, but the attention of students
sense of the times, so that the material and information you tend to be attracted to things that do not need his attention,
need is a lot of, it must advance with the times. Therefore the and they need to pay attention to the content of the absence
design of teaching, not only to consider the teaching process, of "sound" and "Color" to strengthen, is often overlooked.
and other aspects of the method of teaching, but also Some teachers teaching media only as the teacher
consider how to pass these teaching materials and "teaching" tool, but not the teaching media as independent
information required for students, effective use of learning cognitive tools, emotional motivation tools and
information communication media, namely instructional interactive teacher-student exchanges, joint development of
media selection is Education Theory teacher facing a major tools, blindly over-reliance on teaching media, will become
issue. However, in the actual teaching process, some teachers teaching machine operator became a teacher, lost in teacher-
there are some errors in the selection and use of teaching led teaching, which led to teachers' basic skills necessary for
media. the gradual degradation.

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 students participate very little, almost in a state of teachers
say goes. As a highly important theoretical courses and life
theory divorced from reality, students' enthusiasm is not high,
teaching methods are simple, outdated teaching methods,
teaching less than ideal. Linguists J.Hammer divided the
students' motivation for learning within and outside power,
wherein the inner power in determining the success of the
learner to master a language has played a key role. Therefore,
as an important factor is in the power of the teaching and
learning environment and teaching methods in modern
English teaching its utmost importance. Only by changing
the outdated forms of teaching and teaching methods, to
(a) create a more suitable mobilize student’s enthusiasm and
initiative of the teaching environment in order to effectively
improve and enhance the effect of a greater degree of
English teaching. Through observation of teaching
linguistics from the past found in the teaching process, if
students provide a more authentic language contexts, so
students interested in linguistics more concentrated learning
process, learning linguistics becomes interesting, students
understand and grasp the linguistic knowledge and more
accurate and profound. However, teaching in linguistics in
the past, the ability to multi-media teaching a combination of
teaching and linguistics few examples.
On the one hand, teachers in the teaching concept has not
changed over, still followed the traditional teaching model
theory; on the other hand, due to the current and linguistics
textbook supporting the multimedia teaching resources is
(b) extremely limited, teachers in the production of suitable
Figure 2. Multimedia Presentation components Figure in FIG. teaching courseware content also exists some problems,
including the teachers' proficiency in multimedia technology
Selection and use of teaching media is part of the on their level of knowledge and understanding diversity
teaching strategies, teaching information is there between considerations, and so on. These factors make multimedia
teachers take teaching events and exchanges and transfer teaching linguistics applied to English teaching lags in
learning process, is a specific tool or method to achieve teaching other subjects in English.
teaching events, therefore, effective classroom Selection Chalk and talk to a teacher-centered classroom in the
what kind of media, and specifically determined according to form of the formula has resulted in a serious student of
the teaching content, teaching objectives and learner type linguistics lose interest in learning. Therefore, to explore new
ability, it must fully consider the characteristics and linguistic teaching methods, teaching methods more
functions of their own teaching media in teaching the use, scientific imperative. This requires teachers to first realize
teaching media to play to maximize the efficiency of the that teaching linguistics professor at the idea of not only
teaching process in the classroom. linguistic knowledge; more important is to develop the
How to assist students who become teachers placed in students' ability to use language knowledge to analyze and
front of an important issue, with the rapid development of solve problems. In addition, teachers need to guide students
computer technology, mankind has entered the information and practice, to encourage students to analyze language
age, a variety of computer applications software, phenomena in the theory, to find information, writing papers
professional software into the our lives, but also a new or doing social surveys, write investigation reports. Through
generation of high school students cognitive activity in a a variety of practical activities to enable students to become
very important aspect, which requires teachers to keep up the the subject of education, teachers play a leading role in the
pace, so the times, to quickly grasp a variety of advanced teaching process.
electronic information technology, its application to
everyday education activities, information tools in many, IV. CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY
internet multimedia is one of learning for applied linguistics, Constructivism was first used by the Swiss philosopher,
applied linguistics experience and applied linguistics psychologist Jean Piaget.(J.Piaget) proposed in the study of
activities are very important one. children's cognitive development. His basic point is: the
child is in the process of interaction with the surrounding
III. ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING STATUS environment gradually constructing knowledge of the
Traditional teaching English linguistics mainly based outside world, so that their cognitive structure has been
teachers on students passively accept. In the classroom, developed. Children interact with the environment involves

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two basic processes, namely assimilation (assimilation) and applications such as distance learning, remote medical
Adaptation (accommodation). Assimilation refers to the diagnostics, computer conferencing, video on demand VoD
information in the external environment in and bonded to the (Video on Demand) and so on. Networked multimedia
children absorb the existing cognitive structure that applications on this network environment data storage
individuals integrate the information provided by external technology, data processing technology, communications
stimuli to process their original cognitive structure. technology and so made a lot of new demands. This section
Adaptation refers to changes in the external environment, first describes some important basic concepts networked
and the reorganization and transformation of the structure of multimedia systems involved, and from the storage and
children's cognitive process cognitive structure when the management of multimedia data communications on the
original can not assimilate the new information provided by basic needs have networked multimedia applications.
the environment caused by the occurrence of that individual's
cognitive structure due to the influence of external stimuli B. Real-time
and changes the process of. Constructivist learning concept, Continuous media recording devices (such as video
the essence of learning is that each student according to their cameras) to continuously generate quantum stream media,
existing experience and knowledge to take the initiative to the media must be recorded in real time quantum. For
construct, not simply understood as teachers to impart example, to meet the NTSC quality video applications will
knowledge to students. generate 30 second video frame (see Table 1.1). Essentially,
Knowledge of students to teachers explain to go through the process of continuous media player is the inverse of its
"understanding" or "absorb" that knowledge is incorporated record, and should use the same timing sequence capture
into the existing learner, appropriate schema, and that this is media quantum and used to play these media Quantum. Any
a process of obtaining a sense or meaning given. deviation from the timing of the order may result in adverse
Constructivism emphasizes that knowledge is based on consequences, such as video motion spasms occurring in
existing knowledge of learners actively constructed, our audio discontinuities appearing, and even audio and video
understanding of the world is their own subjective construct can not tell. Therefore, when dealing with continuous media,
of the world, different people understand different, so temporal continuity must be maintained within the same
teachers can not impose their knowledge to students, media.
teachers the mission from the transfer of knowledge to the
C. Synchronous media
students into learning organizers, mentors, helpers and
facilitators. In multimedia applications, we must also take into
Teaching Constructivism emphasizes teaching, student- account the synchronization between different media. For
centered; teacher is a guide, facilitator, discoverer and example, playing a movie, you not only need to maintain
mediator. English Language teaching this course contents, video and audio signal itself temporal continuity, but also
theoretical and practical are stronger, less teaching time, between the video and audio signals tight synchronization,
therefore, the teaching model of English Linguistics maintain strict "lip sync" relationship. In another example,
constructivism should be student-centered, in the teaching when playing the cartoon, it must be synchronized between
process of organizing teacher, advocate and promote the role the image and audio (including background music and
of teachers should take advantage of situation, cooperation, commentary).
conversation and other elements of the learning environment D. High data transfer rate and a large storage space
of students into full play the initiative, enthusiasm and
creativity, so as to enable students to effectively implement The large number of digital video and audio players
the construction of the knowledge of current significance. In generate real-time data, such as NTSC video quality produce
this mode, meaning students are active constructors of up to 27M bytes of data (see Table 1.1) per second, therefore,
knowledge, rather than passive recipients of external stimuli; need a network to provide high data transfer rates to support
teachers are the organizers of the teaching process, mentors real-time transmission of continuous media, need multimedia
help the construction of meaning, facilitator, rather than servers and user workstations have enough storage space to
imparting knowledge instill persons; Constructivism store the continuous media data. This requires real-time
emphasizes body awareness initiative, emphasizing the need multimedia system must be efficient storage, retrieval and
to generate awareness within the body, and fully respect the processing of continuous media data. In fact, the complexity
intrinsic cognitive process of the body that cognition is a of multimedia information processing mainly from
from the inside out, from the cognitive subject Active continuous media data, the new demands of multimedia data
initiated in certain situations with the main process of on other storage, management and communications
combining past experience. technology made mainly from continuous media.

V. NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA
VI. MULTIMEDIA TEACHING AND CONSTRUCTIVISM FIT
A. Networked multimedia applications
A. Meaning Multimedia Teaching
In recent years, with the high-speed network technology,
continuous development of multimedia information Multimedia teaching method is the use of the system to a
processing technology, a lot of networked multimedia student-centered, to make the best use of modern information

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technology and information resources, teaching content, teachers' professional knowledge, on information literacy,
teaching methods, teaching process, teaching evaluation the knowledge of a higher demand. Multimedia teaching
teaching specific design, creating teaching system procedure requires teachers for English linguistics necessary expertise,
or procedures to better promote learners. Multimedia but also to have some computer-assisted teaching skills to
teaching is based on specific teaching objectives, learning use text books, CD software, and online information
content using information technology and information resources, able to integrate knowledge, processing, in order
resources more real or realistic reproduction. to guide students to self learns. In teaching, teachers also
need to develop the students' information retrieval
B. Features Multimedia Teaching capabilities, knowledge base ability, skills, collaborative
Multimedia teaching is interactive, knowledge of new, learning, and self-learning ability.
interesting, and informative and so on. First, multimedia can
provide full interactivity, creating vivid visual image of the VII. CONCLUSION
learning environment, teaching visualization, modeling, Computer as the core of multimedia teaching has become
dynamic; in addition, multimedia teaching but also can the implementation of quality education, an effective way to
absorb the forefront of teaching philosophy and teaching improve the efficiency of classroom teaching. Multimedia
achievements, expanding Teachers horizons, teaching times; teaching mode network environment for teaching English
again, multimedia teaching has obvious characteristics of Linguistics University opened up a wider world. Multimedia
strong interest, it makes abstract idea or something specific, approach to teaching linguistics can give full play to the role
so that students are more interested in learning; it also can of students' visual and auditory, both to increase the amount
put out The world into the classroom, but also allows of language input information, and improve the quality of
students out of the classroom, expanding students' language input. Teaching content and teachers closely
knowledge. Multimedia teaching enrich teaching methods, integrated multimedia courseware, so that students fully
television, video, pictures, text, etc. can break the limit, exposed to the fresh information in English, more conducive
enable learners to lock specific knowledge to understand to students the ability to apply the theoretical linguistic
more and more deeply in order to remember longer. analysis of the language material reality. Teachers through
Multimedia teaching can make students self-learning and multimedia visual image can be very clear about the course
collaborative learning space is no longer restricted, thereby content is difficult to describe the past, but the image can be
increasing the depth and breadth of student learning. more students to understand and master the course content
Multimedia teaching is vivid lively, interesting, to achieve accordingly. Teaching for English linguistics, the advantages
effective teaching. of multimedia network teaching that: it contributes to share
C. Multimedia teaching embodies the constructivist view teaching resources; help to stimulate the enthusiasm of
of learning students, students learning autonomy; multimedia network
teaching equally beneficial to mutual cooperation and
Interactive multimedia teaching as a teacher and student exchanges between students; guided help teachers provide
learning mode, so the relationship between teachers and more specific and authentic teaching materials and save time
students has changed, and truly embodies the constructivist teachers marking students' work. Constructivist ideology is
learning concept that student-centered thinking. Multimedia the theoretical basis of the multimedia network technology
teaching is under the guidance of constructivist theory, a and combined university teaching English Linguistics, a
student-centered, emphasizing the students' knowledge of more prominent "student-centered" teaching thinking, so
active exploration, active discovery and the knowledge of the students get the maximum potential of mining, effectively
initiative to build. Multimedia teaching the same students to improving the effectiveness of teaching.
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