Multimedia Technology and Reforms in Foreign Language Teaching

The advent of information age and increasing international exchanges have made foreign languages more and more important. Multimedia technology, which is characterized by a combination of graphic, textual, audio and video functions, provides us with a more effective approach to foreign language teaching. At this moment, it is necessary for us to reform the current foreign language teaching model so as to meet the demands posed by a modern society. This thesis is intended to discuss the characteristics of multimedia technology and foreign language teaching, and the appliance of multimedia technology in language teaching, and try to identify some technical problems concerned.